Larry Isaacs wrote:

>Hi Dave,
>
>I believe one of the primary reasons that the
>conf/catalina.properties file exists is so things like this are
>configurable. If:
>
>shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar
>
>doesn't do what you want, change it to:
>
>shared.loader=${catalina.home}/shared/classes,${catalina.home}/shared/lib/*.jar
>
>or something else that achieves your goal.
>
>
D'oh!!!! Why didn't I think of that???

>Cheers,
>Larry
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Kerber [mailto:dckerber@(protected)]
>>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:55 PM
>>To: Tomcat Users List
>>Subject: Re: Deploying shared .jar's
>>
>>Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>>From: David Kerber [mailto:dckerber@(protected)]
>>>>Subject: Re: Deploying shared .jar's
>>>>
>>>>With the way I read it now, anything I try to put under
>>>>catalina_home/shared/lib won't be visible to the webapps in the
>>>>various catalina_base folders. Is this correct?
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>Yes. Look at RUNNING.txt in your Tomcat installation directory. To
>>>quote from it:
>>>
>>>When you use this "-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE" argument, Tomcat
>>>will calculate all relative references for files in the following
>>>directories based on the value of $CATALINA_BASE instead of
>>>$CATALINA_HOME:
>>>* conf - Server configuration files (including server.xml)
>>>* logs - Log and output files
>>>* shared - For classes and resources that must be shared
>>>    
>>>
>>across all web
>>  
>>
>>>       applications
>>>* webapps - Automatically loaded web applications
>>>* work - Temporary working directories for web applications
>>>* temp - Directory used by the JVM for temporary files
>>>    
>>>
>>(java.io.tmpdir)
>>  
>>
>>>Note the inclusion of shared in the CATALINA_BASE set. It would be
>>>better if it read "For classes and resources that must be
>>>    
>>>
>>shared across
>>  
>>
>>>all web applications within this Tomcat instance."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>Yes, that's what I decided on re-reading it for the umpteenth
>>time, when I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted. A bit
>>of clarification by the doc writers might be in order.
>>
>>Dave
>>  
>>



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