Have you tried placing your library in WEB-INF/lib?
There is probably a classloader issue at work.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James C. McMaster (Jim) [mailto:mcmasjc@(protected)]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:23 PM
> To: tomcat-user@(protected)
> Subject: Tomcat cannot find subclass
>
>
> I am having a problem with Tomcat 3.3, running on Solaris 8.
>
> I have written a framework for asking questions and getting
> responses through
> a browser. The package is called
> com.stortek.ilm.userresponse. The classes
> live in a .jar file which resides in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib/apps.
>
> One of the classes in that package,
> ServletSelectAnswerFormatter, generates
> an HTML select. I get the options by invoking a method
> designed to be
> overridden in a subclass.
>
> My current project has such a subclass,
> CountryServletSelectAnswerFormatter,
> which resides in WEB-INF/classes/com/stortek/ilm/userresponse
> for the correct
> context.
>
> When the servlet runs, I get a ClassNotFoundException:
>
> Class not found:
> com.stortek.ilm.userresponse.CountrySelectServletAnswerFormat
> ter
>
> Does anyone know what is wrong? Is it possible to subclass part of a
> framework, and store the subclass and its parent this way?
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
> --
> Jim McMaster
> mailto:mcmasjc@(protected)
>
>
>
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