Simple CLASSPATH question 1

[osubb]

I'm new to Tomcat (using V5.5). I am doing some tutorials to get up to speed on servlets/JSP. Anyway, I keep getting an error saying it can not find one of my classes. I have put the directory where all my common packages reside in the CLASSPATH var, but Tomcat doesn't seem to find it. The app works fine if I copy the class over to the "classes" dir in my application on Tomcat.

Does Tomcat look at CLASSPATH when finding classes to load? Or is that just a java var and I need all my common classes in the application's "classes" directory?

thanks,

Larry

 

[sedj]

>>>> Does Tomcat look at CLASSPATH when finding classes to load?

No.

If they are common classes, put them in a package, jar it up and put it in TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib or TOMCAT_HOME/shared/lib .

If they are webapp specific, put them in a package, jar it up and put it in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/yourwebapp/WEB-INF/lib

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[osubb]

That's what I figured. Just wanted to be sure! Thanks for the help.

Larry