Sunday, September 12, 2004
Dynamic class loading in CFMX
Many developers seem keen to add things to the Java class path for their ColdFusion installations. Generally I rely on JRUNs dynamic class loading folders to store third-party Java libraries rather than modify the class path directly.
If you place your JAR files in WEB-INF/lib, or your CLASS files in WEB-INF/classes, CFMX will reload them for you. Similarly, if you run the J2EE for CFMX configuration there's a dynamically loading {install root}/servers/lib folder that makes JARs available to all server instances. For example, I stick my Postgresql JDBC driver JAR in there so all server instances have access.
Known Issues
- There were some issues with Sun's jdk1.3.1_06, jdk1.3.1_07, jdk1.3.1_08 JDKs that broke the JRUN class loader, but who's using these anymore?
- I note that Dynamic class loading and compiling doesn't work with double byte characters is a known JRUN issue. I wonder if they mean JRUN won't dynamically load a class with a filename containing double byte characters or if the file contains double byte characters? Certainly I've not run into the problem myself.
Posted by modius at 05:43 PM | Permalink
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if i understand correctly, its the class/file names.
Posted by: paulH on September 12, 2004 06:01 PM