We're running tomcat 6.0.32 64-bit on Windows Server 2008 R2. We have a
requirement to support pluggable extensions to our webapp. We do not want the
associated JAR(s) in the WEB-INF/lib directory. Instead, we want to place them
in a WEB-INF/lib/extensions folder that we created.
To do this, I need to inform my webapp class loader about the extra repository.
From looking at VirtualWebappLoader, this looks like just what I need.
Problem is - I can't seem to get this to work. I have created a context.xml
file and placed it in our META-INF folder. The contents are:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.VirtualWebappLoader"
virtualClasspath="/WEB-INF/lib/extensions/*.jar"/>
</Context>
>From reading the tomcat documentation, it seems like Tomcat should
>automatically detect the context.xml file and add the classloader, but it
>doesn't seem to be looking in this extra directory. I've tried adding a path
>attribute to the Context element, but that didn't help.
If anyone can clarify how to use this, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
-bob
