Newbie here so I'm probably missing something really basic... I've been
looking at this for a few days and decided to be enlightened.




Question:
Is there a tag I need to place in a config file, web.xml file, or somewhere
else to allow an applet access to use/find data/class (non-servlet) files
in a local (non-ROOT) WEB-INF subdirectory? If not, what am I doing wrong?




Problem:
For non-servlets or servlets that have dependencies on other local
classes/files, I am not able to locate files other than servlets specified
in the local WEB-INF/web.xml file.
Files found in the webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib and
webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes are being found and used by my server. So I am
able to make an applet dependant on certain .jar .xml or .class files work
if I place those files in the proper subdirectory under ROOT/WEB-INF . The
applet will work if files are place in the same base local directory as the
applets' .html file, but it will not work when placed in the local WEB-INF
subdirectories.




Example:
Using: Windows2K Pro. SP3 ; Tomcat 4.1.18 ; Java 2 SDK, SE, 1.4.0

I have a file "arc.war" with a structure as follows:
     META-INF/
     META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
     Time.html
     index.html
     WEB-INF/
     WEB-INF/data/Time.xml
     WEB-INF/lib/
     WEB-INF/lib/jcommon-0.8.0.jar
     WEB-INF/classes/
     WEB-INF/classes/connectionServlet.class
     WEB-INF/classes/arcChart.class
     WEB-INF/web.xml

I place the .war file into the webapps directory and it expands on startup
assuming it hasn't already.

index.html refers to the servlet connectionServlet returning html and
having no dependencies. This servlet works.

Time.html containing an applet using archive="jcommon-0.8.0.jar" and
code="arcChart"
arcChart.class uses the file Time.xml
The applet gives a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException or
FileNotFoundException for the .jar .class and .xml files.
If I move these 3 files to the arc.war base directory or the same
subdirectories but using webapps/ROOT as the base directory, the applet works.

From the localhost_log I get messages including:

HostConfig[localhost]: Expanding web application archive arc.war
StandardHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path /arc
from URL file:c:/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18/webapps/arc
WebappLoader[/arc]: Deploying class repositories to work directory
C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\work\Standalone\localhost\arc
WebappLoader[/arc]: Deploy class files /WEB-INF/classes to
c:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\webapps\arc\WEB-INF\classes
WebappLoader[/arc]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/jcommon-0.8.0.jar to
c:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\webapps\arc\WEB-INF\lib\jcommon-0.8.0.jar
StandardManager[/arc]: Seeding random number generator class
java.security.SecureRandom
StandardManager[/arc]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed
StandardWrapper[/arc:default]: Loading container servlet default
StandardWrapper[/arc:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker

So I know the .jar file is being loaded without any error messages...
Virtually all my settings are standard from setup except for the automatic
reloading when something changes so I don't have to always restart the server.




I'm open to suggestions or any links anyone could provide for further
reading on this matter. I'm just not sure where else to look.



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