IFS-20010 when running in 9ias Rel2

Question

We have a web-application built using JSP/Java and IFS. Running as a web-app under 9iAS Rel2, LibraryService.startService always fail with IFS-20010. The same code runs nicely outside the web container.
Looking at file activity on the computer, we see some peculiarities:
1) While running under 9iAS the process tries to find the file c:\oracle\AppServer\javacache\cachedobjects\classes\oracle\ifs\server\properties\IfsDefault.properties. When this file does not exist, it looks no further.
2) Running outside 9iAS, the process looks in the classpath (as expected).
Does anybody know anything about this?

Answer 1

Here's what one of our developers has to say:
You can try putting the file in the web app's WEB-INF/classes directory.
It depends on where they put the ifs jars, because they may be loaded by a classloader that can't look in WEB-INF/classes. I assume they have the jars in WEB-INF/lib. If they put them somewhere higher up then it won't work.
I need more info, it's all about class loaders. There are other techniques to add different directories to the classpath of different class loaders, but again it matters where ifs.jar is.
They can add the IfsDefault.properties to the ifs.jar file, but of course that's one ugly solution, but it'd work all the time.