Tomcat, class loader and ContextLoaderListener

[hdupre]

I read all the documentation about tomcat classloaders but I'm not sure I get it all... I had my app working well when the application was containing in the war all the jars (including springs jar files). But now I moved the jars to shared/lib and I get java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListe ner.
This doesn't make sense to me. Anyone has a clue?

Henri.

[nyname00]

Hi,

the shared/lib directory should be the right place to put your libs in.
Take a look at your .../Tomcat/conf/catalina.properties. You should
find an entry like the following at the end of the file, specifying your shared/lib and shared/classes directories:

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

Maybe this entry has been changed for some reason...

regards
Mario

p.s.: remember to restart your tomcat when moving your jars to the libs directory!

[hdupre]

Hi,

the shared/lib directory should be the right place to put your libs in.
Take a look at your .../Tomcat/conf/catalina.properties. You should
find an entry like the following at the end of the file, specifying your shared/lib and shared/classes directories:

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

Maybe this entry has been changed for some reason...

Thanks alot Mario! I was looking for these parameters for a long time!
Anyway the evil was in my context.xml I had privileged="true"... by setting it to privileged="false" everything is working fine :-)

Henri.