> From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com]
> Subject: Re: Loading Jar files in a particular order on Tomcat 6
>
> I am rather sure that it is an official rule (I must be somewhere
> documented [1]), that jars in a classpath are searched in the order
> they are specified there.
Correct; this is what I was referring to as "normal behavior". What is not in
spec is the order in which jars are placed in the classpath when the classpath
is constructed internally by the classloader itself.
> Certain file systems (e.g. NTFS as far as I know) return file lists in
> alphabetical order, but that is all that stands behind that advice of
> naming the jar.
NTFS is the only one I'm aware of that does it, and its ordering is not
case-sensitive, if that's a concern. In most environments, the sorting is done
by whatever shell program is displaying the contents of the directory.
> Thus the solution in this case is to unpack those jars that
> must come first.
Painful, but workable.
> If those are shared libraries, e.g. in ${catalina.base}/lib, you can
> specify an order in catalina.properties
Much more controllable.
- Chuck
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