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From: "Delia, Brett" <Brett.Delia@nike.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:19 -0800
Subject: catalina.properties on Windows 7 64bit
Thread-Topic: catalina.properties on Windows 7 64bit
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Greetings,

I have a frustrating issue that I see when I try to set up an environment o=
n my Windows laptop, where I do development, to match my Linux servers that=
 our applications reside.  Everything seems to behave the way I would expec=
t with the exception of setting the shared.loader property in catalina.prop=
erties.

On Linux I can set it up like this:

shared.loader=3D${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/ sharedP=
roperties /*.properties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties,${catalina.home}=
/ sharedProperties /*.properties

But on my Windows laptop that does not work and results in the server throw=
ing the following during start up:

SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception
java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the file specified
     at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
     at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:396)
     at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:559)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(Cl=
assLoaderFactory.java:201)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.j=
ava:174)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.ja=
va:98)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:207)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:391)

I can get it working if I explicitly name all of the property files that mi=
ght be in that directory like so:

shared.loader=3D${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/ sharedP=
roperties /foo.properties,${catalina.base}/ sharedProperties /bar.propertie=
s,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties /fo=
o.properties,${catalina.home}/sharedProperties /bar.properties


My intent is to not have to do that but to leave it more generic, like we d=
o on the Linux servers.   This makes it so that each application that has a=
 property file that need to be dropped in that shareProperties directory do=
es not have to result in updating the Tomcat configuration.

Any insight on why I cannot seem to configure this the same way on Windows =
and Linux would be greatly appreciated.  According to the properties file i=
tself I should be able to do so.

Thanks
Brett Delia

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