Bug 51567 - Classloader docs don't address CATALINA_BASE
Summary: Classloader docs don't address CATALINA_BASE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 7
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2011-07-27 18:20 UTC by Jon Wilmoth
Modified: 2011-07-29 12:53 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Wilmoth 2011-07-27 18:20:34 UTC 
The http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html docs do a great job of defining the priority of classloaders for a deployment where CATALINA_HOME is the same as CATALINA_BASE.  Through some experimentation it appears CATALINA_BASE/lib is also searched for classes.  It would be nice to see the docs reflect the additional location(s) searched and the order in which they are.  For example will CATALINA_BASE/lib/some-classes.jar take precedence over CATALINA_HOME/lib/some-classes.jar?
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2011-07-29 12:53:14 UTC 
BASE takes priority over HOME.
classes take priority over JARs.

I have updated the docs to reflect this. The changes will be in 7.0.20 onwards.