Tomcat: Place my classes somewhere other than inside WEB-INF?

[Chris Widmer]

hi,

i'm trying to let tomcat pull some classes in from a dir outside of
WEB-INF. i've read something about setting CLASSPATH, but that doesn't
quite work. is there a way to do this (modify the startup script)?


thanks,
chris

 

[Wendy Smoak]

i'm trying to let tomcat pull some classes in from a dir outside of
WEB-INF. i've read something about setting CLASSPATH, but that doesn't
quite work. is there a way to do this (modify the startup script)?

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html

While it looks like you can modify the startup script to change the system
classpath, the classpath for an individual webapp is constructed internally.
My guess is that you would have to modify the Tomcat source code to make it
happen.