[avajrd]

I know this is not strictly a myeclipse question, but maybe somebody here can give me some guidance on tomcat’s shared.loader.

I have some jars that are required by a deployed application that reside on a mapped drive in a windows environment. I wanted to list these in the catalina.properties file in the shared.loader line so that they would be available. I wanted to avoid copying them to the actual tomcat shared/lib directory.

The line looked something like:

shared.loader=$(catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar,x:/lib/jar1.jar,x:/lib/jar2.jar

This does not appear to work. Only when I physically put the files in the shared/lib can the application resolve these references. Windows shortcuts don’t do the trick either.

In a unix environment, I would simply make a symbolic link to them in the shared/lib and be done with it.

Ideas or suggestions?

Mike

[Riyad Kalla]

Check here for sym links under windows, 3rd post down:
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/allow-linking-to-jars-from-web-inf-lib-enhancement/&highlight=

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