Bug 9371

Summary: Classloader does not load the local web apps "lib" directory before loading "shared" repository
Product: Tomcat 4 Reporter: Paul Chung <chung_po_loi>
Component: UnknownAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 4.0.3 Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   

Description Paul Chung 2002-05-24 06:31:17 UTC 
I have tried using xalan in my web application. I have put the xalan's jar 
files in my <webapp>/web-inf/lib/ directory but tomcat couldn't find it. I 
found that those "jar" files in the <webapp>/web-inf/lib/ doesn't override 
the "xerces.jar" located in <tomcat home>/common/lib. This is in contrast with 
the documentation in "http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-
loader-howto.html"

This problem forced me to change the existing xerces.jar in "common" folder to 
the xalan version. But it causes me having another problem when installing 
another application, which uses a different version of W3C DOM APIs.
Comment 1 Remy Maucherat 2002-05-24 06:34:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6374 ***