according to this diagram

  Bootstrap
      |
    System
      |
    Common
   /    \
Catalina  Shared
        /  \
    Webapp1 Webapp2 ...

classes sitting in Catalina can see
classes in Common but classes in Common
can not see classes in Catalina

Your org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase
is probably sitting in Catalina (server/lib)
and classes that sit in Common (common/lib)
can not get to it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasha Borodin [mailto:sasha@(protected)]
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:26 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Custom realm jar file location
>
>
> I've written a custom Realm implementation, JAR'ed it up, and have been
> trying to understand it's proper habitat:
>
> 1. If I put it $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib - everything works
> 2. If I put it $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib - I get an exception:
>      java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/catalina/realm/RealmBase
>
> I thought that JAR's in common/lib were accessible to both server and
> webapps. What am I missing?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Sasha Borodin
>
>
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