Quirk of wls 4.5.1 startup..

Question

<HELP ME>
I have no understanding as to why, but it seems that the dynamic classloader
thingy will not function unless you begin the process from <installDir>.
Because of this the batch file to start the hotDeploy version must be in
your <installDir> and all references to classes found stemming from the
<installDir> must be indicated using .\theClass
I would love somebody to explain why this is so.
In other words:
if you do this:
set WLS_INSTALL_DIR=d:\weblogic
set JAVACLASSPATH=%WLS_INSTALL_DIR%\classes\boot;.....etc etc
you throw an Exception in Thread Main class not found Exception
javax.naming.blah blah
if instead you start your .bat file from d:\weblogic and do this:
set JAVACLASSPATH=.\classes\boot;...etc etc
everything works great.
</HELP ME>

Answer 1

Great. I'm glad that worked out for you.
The will ask the documentation team to place a note regarding this.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael Girdley
Product Manager, WebLogic Server & Express
BEA Systems Inc
Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote in message
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You are so right! - kind of. It turns out you must start your .bat file
from a directory which contains a global weblogic.properties file and you
must specify the path to the weblogic.policy file. If you do these things
you can use any arbitrary %VARIABLES% that you like with full success.
Thankyou.
Michael Girdley <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:8fflt5$36n$[email protected]..
I believe that you were simply witnessing an artifact of the relativepaths
that we used in the start script. If you were to give full paths there,
I
think that you would be fine.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael Girdley
Product Manager, WebLogic Server & Express
BEA Systems Inc
Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:8fd6go$oe9$[email protected]..
<HELP ME>
I have no understanding as to why, but it seems that the dynamicclassloader
thingy will not function unless you begin the process from
<installDir>.
Because of this the batch file to start the hotDeploy version must bein
your <installDir> and all references to classes found stemming fromthe
<installDir> must be indicated using .\theClass
I would love somebody to explain why this is so.
In other words:
if you do this:
set WLS_INSTALL_DIR=d:\weblogic
set JAVACLASSPATH=%WLS_INSTALL_DIR%\classes\boot;.....etc etc
you throw an Exception in Thread Main class not found Exception
javax.naming.blah blah
if instead you start your .bat file from d:\weblogic and do this:
set JAVACLASSPATH=.\classes\boot;...etc etc
everything works great.
</HELP ME>