Bug#493932: libtomcat5-java: Shared classes not searched, but common classes

[Daniel Migowski]

Package: libtomcat5-java
Severity: normal


Classes in $CATALINA_HOME/shared/classes are not found from webapps, while
classes in $CATALINE_HOME/common/classes are. This breaks usual expectations
for tomcat.

To validate this, create a simple jsp in the ROOT-Application which the
following content:

<%=Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("hello.txt")%>

Call this. It returns "null" as expected. Now

 touch /usr/share/tomcat5.5/shared/classes/hello.txt

Call the jsp. It still returns "null", which is wrong in my opinion.

 touch /usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/classes/hello.txt

The jsp returns InputStream at 462424645 now or something like that. This is
the expected behaviour for the previous case, too, and works like a charm on
other platforms like windows.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.13-ikoffice
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)