Deploying WAR with Spring with its external JAR dependencies

Question

I have a Spring application that has many dependencies (18 megabytes of JAR files ..). Now, when I test on a remote Tomcat 6.0 server, I will not need to load this 19 megabytes of dependencies and just load the classes. Pretty simple, right?

I can't get this damn thing to work.

I use Eclipse 3.4, and if in Java Build Path-> Order and Export I delete the export of all the dependencies, I get a nice little WAR.

So here is what I tried:

I uploaded all the libraries to the server and ran them in the general / lib in Tomcat. The directory does not exist, so I created it and changed the properties of catalina.properties:

shared.loader=${catalina.home}/common/lib/*.jar

I tried a bunch of other configurations but no one worked. Reboot the server, the deployed war does not start. In particular:

SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderList$java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener       at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

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duffymo... 19MB ... - ? .

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

• WEB-INF/lib ?
• log4j.jar?
• spring.jar?

classloader.

Answer 6

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webapps.

Answer 7

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Another note: you should only do this if you have full control over the server, and you only install applications.

Answer 8

Why did you change the default $ {shared.loader} property for tomcat?