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From: "Bill Barker" <wbarker@wilshire.com>
Subject: Re: WebappClassLoader delegates to SystemClassLoader,
 not CustomClassLoader
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:52:54 -0700
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Not enough info to give you a code sample (since with Embedded, you are 
controlling the ClassLoaders, and Tomcat isn't doing it's default 
common/server/shared thing).  However, what you want is one of the following 
(depending on your CL requirements):
   engine.setParentClassLoader(myClassLoader);
   host.setParentClassLoader(myClassLoader);
   context.setParentClassLoader(myClassLoader);

If you are using JMX-embedding, this is currently only supported at the 
Context level in JMX (although reflection still works for the others).  As 
you might guess, setting it on the Engine sets it for all Hosts that don't 
have an explicit setting, setting it on the Host sets it for all Contexts 
that don't have an explicit setting, and setting it on the Context sets it 
for the Context.

"Andrew McDowall" <andy.mcdowall@edina.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:F1CE4737D64A1D4ABAC71CB4ACD2D8EA018F2F07@salentino.edina.co.uk...
Hi,

I'm running into ClassLoader problems when using a custom ClassLoader
with an embedded Tomcat.  The problem, as I understand it, is arising
due to multiple versions of log4j being loaded by different ClassLoaders
resulting in ClassCastExceptions or expected interfaces not being
implemented.

In my main application's libraries I have log4j.jar - this is loaded by
a URLClassLoader, while in my WebApp's libraries I have a different
log4j.jar which is loaded by Tomcat's WebAppClassLoader.  Within my main
application I have an embedded Tomcat which is also loaded using the
URLClassLoader, thus Tomcat expects to use log4j classes that are bound
to the URLClassLoader, unfortunately the WebAppClassLoader does not
appear to be searching the URLClassLoader and instead loads log4j from
its own libraries.

As far as I can tell, the search order for the WebAppClassLoader never
actually delegates up beyond the Common-classLoader, instead it skips
straight to the SystemClassLoader avoiding my URLClassLoader.  I should
add that I have successfully implemented a 'hack' to my system which
uses the SystemClassLoader and have not encountered the same problems -
since when the WebAppClassLoader interrogates the SystemClassLoader the
expected version of log4j would be loaded.

Does anybody know of a way to get round this?  I'd assume that setting
my URLClassLoader to be the parent of the Common-ClassLoader would work
but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to achieve this.
Failing that is there a way to specify that Tomcat uses a subclass of
WebAppClassLoader (which I could write)?


Thanks in advance.

Andy McDowall.


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