[fedora-java] Tomcat Help

[Gary Benson]

Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:
> I am trying to set up Tomcat 5 on Fedora Core 5 and everything iw
> working find but i do not know how to set my classpath when using
> tomcat below is a few things that i have tried.
> 
> I have found i can use the following code to print out the classpath
> that my program is actaully using, the code is:
> 
> Get the System Classloader
>        ClassLoader sysClassLoader = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
> 
>        //Get the URLs
>        URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader)sysClassLoader).getURLs();
> 
>        for(int i=0; i< urls.length; i++)
>        {
>           out.println(urls[i].getFile());
>           out.println("<br>");
>        }
> 
> and the classpath that is printed is:
> 
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/lib/tools.jar
> /etc/tomcat5/bin/dist/commons-daemon.jar
> /etc/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar
> 
> But i am not sure where this is getting set, i do have the following
> in my /tomcat5/bin/startup.sh
> 
> export 
> CLASSPATH=./mapscript.jar:.:/etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/WEB-INF/classes
> 
> so why is this not my classpath at run time??

Tomcat does all kinds of weird things to the classpath.  Any jars your
webapp needs need to be in its WEB-INF/lib directory.

Cheers,
Gary