Endorsed Directory

[Jayaseelan Shanmugam]

Following are the libraries which are being used in my application for PDF report generation.
1. xalan-2.6.0.jar
2. xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar
3. xml-apis.jar

Problem is I have compulsorily to put these libraries in the tomcat common/endorsed folder or otherwise reports are not generated duing run time. I have tried to keep all the libraries in my application specific lib folder but it does not works. Please do the needful

[Ben Souther]

Jayaseelan
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[Sivaraman Lakshmanan]

Hi Jayaseelan,
I am not sure which API you use for PDF generation. But I have tried with itext-1.3.jar and jcpagelayout451K.jar. Both doesn't need those xml's to be placed in the common/endrosed folder

[Jayaseelan Shanmugam]

Hi Sivaraman,
As you mentioned using itext library is one way of genearting reports in java. The other way aroud is using fop to generate PDF or CSV reports. Here the process is transforming XSLT(format) and XML (data holder) by using FOP libraries.

Here the main issue is I can not use the XML processing libraries which are kept inside my application specific lib folder. System expects those libraries with in the tomcat endorsed directory instead application specific libraries.

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[Ben Souther]

Jayaseelan S,

Thank you for changing it.
However, the policy states that there must be a full last name.
It is OK to use an initial for the first name.

Please make that update.
Thanks,
-Ben

[Sivaraman Lakshmanan]

Hi,
What problem do you face by keeping those jars in common/endrosed dir

[Ben Souther]

Jayaseelan Shanmugam,
Thank you for fixing your name.

Good-Luck with your question.

[Jayaseelan Shanmugam]

Hi Sivaraman,
Since the Web server in our production environment is shared one, I can not deploy the third party libraries into the server endorsed directory.

Thx & Regards,
JaySee

[Sivaraman Lakshmanan]

Hi,
Hope this URL may help you. Here in this article says that all the jars are kept only in web applications lib directory.
Could you post the stack trace...