Actually as I wrote in the mail with the scenario: , when I do not specify the "catalina.ext.dirs", deployment fails
>INFO: Deploying web application archive C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.25\webapps\test-web-app.war >Feb 4, 2012 10:41:44 PM org.apache.catalina.util.ExtensionValidator validateManifestResources >INFO: ExtensionValidator[/test-web-app][Web Application Manifest]: Required extension [test-jar] not found. >Feb 4, 2012 10:41:44 PM org.apache.catalina.util.ExtensionValidator validateManifestResources >INFO: ExtensionValidator[/test-web-app]: Failure to find [1] required extension(s). >Feb 4, 2012 10:41:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal >SEVERE: Error getConfigured >Feb 4, 2012 10:41:44 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal >SEVERE: Context [/test-web-app] startup failed due to previous errors then when I specify "catalina.ext.dirs" then it fails with CNFE 2012/2/6 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pid, > > On 2/6/12 6:48 AM, Pid wrote: > > On 06/02/2012 11:08, Violeta Georgieva wrote: > >>> I was going to ask you why you were using it! So is your > >>> interest purely academic? > >> I have existing applications that are moving to Tomcat from > >> another application server. As "dependencies on extensions" is a > >> standard mechanism for shared libraries, they use it in order to > >> be independent from the application servers. > > > > I see - in my experience this mechanism is rarely used in web > > applications. Interesting. > > Yeah, I had never heard of it. > > Also, the whole metadata-scanning thing seems totally unnecessary: the > webapp tries to load a class, and the ClassLoader figures it out. The > fact that the metadata exists doesn't really help much. > > I haven't looked at the validation code, though, so it's possible that > the container is supposed to refuse to deploy the webapp if an > appropriate extension isn't available. > > That obviously wasn't happening in Violeta's case because the > deployment succeeded but then she got a CNFE. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8wGqYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAxhQCfQ2NBq+vrLxIREvKp8mFROnw5 > mOUAn194PtKwYxvxKv1BJrTAkmnCksfu > =X6VY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
