Classpath and Tomcat 4.0

Question

I need to add a jar to the classpath, and I don't know how to do that....I'm new to all this, so please be very detailed in guiding me.
I use Tomcat 4.0 on win2000.

Answer 1

To add a jar file to the classpath follow the following instructions
1. Windows system:
a. Go to Control Panel - System - Select the Advanced Tab.
b. Click on the Enviroment variables Button. This will throw up a window with a lot of predefined variables. The classpath varible must be one among these. If it is there select it and press edit other wise select add.
c. To add the jar file place a ";" at the end of the previously stored value and enter the full path to the jar file like this c:\dir1\dir2\Jarfile.jar
Alternately for the windows system you can add the following line to the autoexec.bat file in your c:\ drive or any .bat file which is to be run before your application
set classpath=c:\dir1\dir2\Jarfile.jar;%CLASSPATH%
2. For Unix System:
a. If you are using C shell look for the .cshrc file or .cshrc.user file to add the jar file to the classpath, similarly if it is k shell look for .kshrc or .kshrc.user file to add the path . Note that the entries in Unix are seperated by ":"
Keep me posted
Good Luck!
Eshwar Rao
Developer Technical Support
Sun microsystems inc
http://www.sun.com/developers/support