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I wold STRONLY recommend you DO NOT touch the CLASSPATH env variable.  
It's just a horrible idea.  What is it about your webservice that 
requires the alteration of CLASSPATH?  Can you describe that a bit 
more?  The standard classloader structure works very well in virtually 
all other cases.

--David

Tom�s Tormo wrote:
> Hi again
>
>  I've tried to set the classpath in catalina.sh in order to have my 
> own classpath set when tomcat starts up ( I show it in catalina.sh as 
> well and it looks good). But my problem is that when I show it in my 
> webservice (using 
> System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.class.path"))) it is 
> changed again (it only points to a few jar files in /bin folder) and 
> therefore my webservice can't work properly. Shouldn't it be pinting 
> to my my /webapp/webservice/WEB-INF/lib folder as well? Does anybody 
> know how to fix this problem?
>
> Hakan: I've tried the solution you gave me (create a setenv.sh script 
> called from startup.sh) but tomcat don't start up!
>
> Thank you very much for your future answers :p
>
> Tom�s Tormo escribi�:
>> Hi Hakan
>>
>> First of all thank you for your fast answer ;).
>>
>> Do you mean to create an script called setenv.sh wich will set the 
>> CLASSPATH (by export CLASSPATH.. etc)? This script should be called 
>> by a modified startup.sh?
>>
>> By they way, I printed the CLASSPATH in my webservice (using 
>> System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.class.path")); ) and it 
>> says that my CLASSPATH is only pointing to a few jars in the bin 
>> folder, not even to my /lib folder in my webservice folder (I hope I 
>> explained myself well, I'm not using war files). Shouldn't it be 
>> pointing to my /webapp/webservice/WEB-INF/lib folder as well?
>>
>> Thank you!!
>>
>> Greetings!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hakan Koseoglu escribi�:
>>> Hi Tom�s,
>>> Tom�s Tormo said the following on 09/10/2007 08:26 AM:
>>>> I would like to change the classpath for a concrete webservice in 
>>>> Tomcat 5.028 because the webservice has to use a concrete folder in 
>>>> order to work. This folder should be in the CLASSPATH in order to 
>>>> make the webservice work properly and because the webservice can't 
>>>> find it, it doesn't work.
>>> With Tomcat 5, creating a setenv.sh solves the problem for me. It 
>>> gets called if you start the Tomcat using startup.sh.
>>>
>>> Any variable you define there will be used, including the classpath. 
>>> We use it to point to the libraries which we don't put into 
>>> common/lib nor war files.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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