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To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Using Class.forName() with Tomcat 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 20:37:28 MST."
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:47:38 +0800
From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au>

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> I'm trying to load a class by name.  The class is located in =
> $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes and I am getting long stack =
> trace.  Any reason why class for name won't work off of the ROOT =
> context?  Is it a permission issue?
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Sheesh.

What do you think the trace is for, if not to tell you what went wrong?

What do you think
	try {
	} catch (Exception E) {
	}
is for, if not to report in a format YOU can understand.


Please, use the information and tools YOU have at hand, before wasting the 
time and bandwidth of others.