[STR-1400] Tiles uses Class.forName() to load Controller class

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1 RC1
• Fix Version/s: 1.1 Family
• Component/s: Tiles 1 Plugin
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 19070
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Renaud Bruyeron
• Created: 16/Apr/03 21:55
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 19:45
• Resolved: 04/Jul/07 05:28

Description

At the end of org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtilImpl:

/**

• Return the <code>Class</code> object for the specified fully qualified
• class name, from the underlying class loader.
  *
• @param className Fully qualified class name to be loaded
• @return Class object
• @exception ClassNotFoundException if the class cannot be found
  */
  public Class applicationClass(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException { return Class.forName(className); }

For some reason this works in Tomcat 4.1.24, but it does not in iPlanet 6.0 Web
Server SP2. Tiles does not work at all in iPlanet if one uses custom tiles
controllers.

Class.forName() is wrong in a webapp context, the Context class loader should be
used instead (via Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() ).

The problem is also in HEAD.

• Renaud