Tomcat 6 endorsed java.endorsed.dirs Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism XML libraries xerces
Problem:
If your webapp needs its own XML libraries (xerces in particular) how do you get Tomcat 6 to use this and not the JAXP APIs packaged into the JSE? This used to be as simple as dropping them into
${CATALINA_BASE}/common/endorsed but there's only a ${CATALINA_BASE}/lib folder ...Solution:
Thankfully found the solution in this blog (and comments).
Simply, create a
${CATALINA_BASE}/endorsed folder and drop the jar files in there. Tomcat will be setup to use this if it exists. Notes:
No explicit mention of this in Tomcat 6 Class Loader notes
It does note the
-Djava.endorsed.dirs system property is set but you need to check setclasspath.[bat|sh] for when it's set and what it's set to by default - ie ${CATALINA_BASE}/endorsed.
2 comments:
The default endorsed path is ${CATALINA_HOME}/endorsed, not ${CATALINA_BASE}/endorsed.
See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html#XML_Parsers_and_Java
I had a problem with JAX-WS version 2.2 on Java 6. The endorsed libs on ${JAVA_HOME}/lib/endorsed wasn't working.
But now it's working now!!
Thank you very much!
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