[ale] tomcat woes

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:40 -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:59:41PM -0400, James P. Kinney III spake thus:
> > Has anyone setup tomcat 5 with the /servlets/* invoker? 
> I believe the Servlet invoker requires /servlet/ with no 's'. 

I'll double check. I've seen docs that say both. I settled on servlets
as that is what the old setup was using (and all the page links are
using).
> 
> [...] 
> > Tomcat just doesn't "see" the class files in the servlets directory.
> [...]
> It sounds like the Servlets you wish to invoke are not in your web 
> application's classpath.  Do these Servlets need to be accessed by 
> multiple web apps, or does each web app have its own servlets?
Each app has it's own servlets.

>   If 
> the latter is true, having the Servlets either in your /WEB-INF/lib 
> as a .jar package or as files that get compiled and output into 
> /WEB-INF/classes should make them visible.

Haven't tried that. Will do it today.

>   If you need a classpath 
> entry for a .jar or .class files outside the webapps directory, it 
> is a bit more involved, but fortunately doable.

Ah Ha! I haven't tweaked the classpath for the tomcat startup to include
the {user}/servlets directory.
> 
> Sorry if I overlooked part of the issue, but I had to make this reply 
> quick.

Many thanks!!
> 
> Regards,
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