On 8/4/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 08:57 -0700, Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote: > so why is this not my classpath at run time?? IIRC, Tomcat resets the classpath when it starts up, so it does not matter what you put in your system classpath or even if you tweak the startup.sh. I could be wrong though, since it has been years (literally) since I touched Tomcat. But if you want your JAR file to be in the classpath, there are two directories that I seem to recall where you can place the file: <tomcat-directory>/webapps/<servlet-name>/WEB-INF/classes/ <tomcat-directory>/common/lib/ But it would help if you could answer the following questions: 1. What is the URL that you key into the browser location bar to access the servlet? This is VERY important, because most problems come from the location and the mapping of the servlet.
http://neuron:8080/my_test/MapServer
2. What is the current location for your JAR file?
I have copies of it everywhere now trying to find the correct location so fare i have used: /etc/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/jre/lib/ext/mapscript.jar /etc/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/lib/mapscript.jar /etc/tomcat5/common/lib/mapscript.jar /etc/tomcat5/shared/lib/mapscript.jar /etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/WEB-INF/classes/mapscript.jar /etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/WEB-INF/lib/mapscript.jar /etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/WEB-INF/src/mapscript.jar
3. Does the web application get loaded at all? What are the errors in catalina.out when you startup Tomcat? You can check if the web application even exists in Tomcat by accessing the Manager web application (if you installed it).
The only error in my catalina.out file is: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError I can run a servelt just fine, but when i try to use this mapscript library i keep running into problems. I did create a servelt that prints out the current classpath to the screen and i get: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/lib/tools.jar /etc/tomcat5/bin/dist/commons-daemon.jar /etc/tomcat5/bin/bootstrap.jar And i dont know and cant find online where this classpath is getting set. As suggested on the web i have added the following to ./startup.sh export CLASSPATH=./mapscript.jar:.:/etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/WEB-INF/classes and also added the following to /etc/tomcat5/webapps/my_test/.classpath <classpathentry kind="var" path="TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/mapscript.jar"/>
