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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:47:20 -0500
From: "Rahul Akolkar" <rahul.akolkar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Digester 1.8 classloader issue when using tomcat
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, rmenon <rmenon.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you please elaborate? Are you suggesting that I should just package all
> three jar files in WEB-INF/lib?
>
<snip/>

If they are needed by the said web app, yes.

-Rahul


> Rahul Akolkar wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:14 PM, rmenon <rmenon.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I have three jar files: common, webapp-common, my-webapp.jar.
>>> common- can be used by non web apps
>>> webapp-common - common stuff shared by web apps.
>>> my-webapp.jar - a particular web app.
>>>
>>>  I am using digester to build my classes for the app my-webapp.jar. In
>>> the
>>> digester rules, I have classes that are in all three jar files. Now,
>>> ideally
>>> speaking, I should be able to put the webapp-cmmon and common jar files
>>> in
>>> the shared/lib and the my-webapp.jar in WEB-INF/lib. However, that
>>> results
>>> in the digester failing with "NoClassDefFoundException". The problem goes
>>> away if we put all three jars in the WEB-INF/lib since the digester class
>>> loader can see those classes. However, the common jar is already in the
>>> shared/lib being used by other apps. I added some new "common" stuff for
>>> the
>>> my-webapp.jar and hence running into this issue.
>>>
>>> My latest thinking is to separate out the portion of the classes being
>>> used
>>> by the my-webapp.jar from the common jar file into its own jar. Then I
>>> can
>>> bundle the webapp-common ahd my-webapp.jar in to the WEBINF/lib and
>>> retain
>>> the common jar in the shared/lib. Is there a better approach? What is the
>>> best practice in this scenario. Does someone have an idea of overhead in
>>> terms of performance etc if we "duplicate" jar files in each app instead
>>> of
>>> sharing them in common/lib? What I do not like about this issue is that I
>>> think this issue would not be there if I was creating objects without
>>> using
>>> digester - so a way to use the approach (where I can access the common
>>> classes from digester) would be really ideal in my opinion.
>>>
>>> I did search the google and also this forum - I note that someone
>>> suggested
>>> to always bundle each jar files within the web app itself separately.
>>> What
>>> is the rationale for that?
>>>
>> <snip/>
>>
>> Portability, potential trouble with statics etc. Also, digester itself
>> (and beanutils in particular) should never be shared.
>>
>> -Rahul
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