NutchConf should use the thread context classloader

• Key: NUTCH-142
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Cannon-Brookes
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.2, 0.8

Description

Right now NutchConf uses it's own static classloader which is evil in a J2EE scenario.

This is simply fixed. Line 52:

private ClassLoader classLoader = NutchConf.class.getClassLoader();

Should be:

private ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

This means no matter where Nutch classes are loaded from, it will use the correct J2EE classloader to try to find configuration files (ie from WEB-INF/classes).