Tomcat Class Loader Prefeence

[Muhammad Sarwar]

I wanna know what is the prefwerence of tomcat class loading.
Actually I hve som jar file(javax extensions from jdk1.3) and now i m using jdk1.4.
These lib are also available in jdk1.4 but my program is dependent on jdk1.3 (extensions)and for me it is alo must that i should use JDK1.4 as there are some other modules dependencies on it.
Is there ne way to change the preference so that tomcat will load the (jar file in my webapp lib and not in jdk1.4 lib)

[Mike Curwen]

There's documentation on the classloader in the Tomcat docs, that is fairly complete.

As for your trouble with *some* parts relying on 1.3 and other parts needing 1.4, are you *sure* that they depend on 1.3 ? I'm fairly certain Sun went to great lengths to preserve 'backward compatibility', such that programs written under 1.3 will also function under 1.4. If the dependancies you're talking about are XML parsers, you're in luck. There is a good section on how to use the 1.4 'endorsed jars' mechanism in the Tomcat docs...

Here are the Tomcat Docs on Class Loaders
[ June 13, 2003: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]