In Tomcat I want to use a jar inside a web application. The jar file will exist outside of the Tomcat directory.
To include the jar file in tomcat classpath, I modified the TomcatHome/conf/catalina.properties to include the absolute path of my jar file like,
shared.loader=D:\jaa\MyJarFile.jar
as per the suggestion given in link,
http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-classpath
But it throws the error,
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
I have also tried ,
shared.loader=D:\jaa\*.jar
shared.loader=file:\\D:\jaa\MyJarFile.jar
None of them seem to work :(
If I try placing the jar inside tomcat/lib it seem to work. But I am not allowed to do that.
Please help me out with this issue as I have implementation the next week..
I figured this out myself. Instead of editing catalina.properties, we can create a "setenv.sh" in the Tomcat Bin directory with the classpath,
Example,
CLASSPATH=D:\jaa\MyJarFile.jar
I just checked the catalina.sh in Tomcat/bin and these classpath variable will be set while setting the bootstrap as the classpath.