What means class-loader delegate=

Hello:
What means <class-loader delegate="true"/> tag into sun-web.xml ?
And if the 'delegate' value is 'false' ?
Where can I find information about this property ?
Thanks a lot in advance
Best regards

Thanks.
I'm working with SUN ONE AS 7, and I found its equivalent link
http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWadoc/SONEAPPSVRWEBAPP/dwdeploy.html#66152
The problem is that I have to include this tag for my WAR file for all works fine, but isn't a Web Service ( as documentation says )
This WAR calls EJB components in another server instance, being a IIOP client.
If I don't write this tag, some libraries ( Ibatis jars) have problems to load instaces dynamically ( with new Instance() ). This problem is a ClassCastException
This libraries are stored into <server-instance>/lib directory , and not into WEB-INF/lib
Indedd, if I store them into WEB-INF/lib, and not into <server-instance>/lib, same exception happens.
Classloaders are common for all server instance or every server instance has own classloaders hierarchy ?
Does anynone know why I have to delegate to parent classloader ( EJB classloader ) to find jars stored into <server-instance>/lib ?
Thanks a lot in avance
Best regards

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    has been ignored. It is a copy of /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib), which is already visible in the search path of
    loader wes-ear.web.wes-wicket-1.3.X-SNAPSHOT:0.0.0. 2) Now on the other hand as you would see from the log-excerpts below, the log4j.properties resource file (with the log-output-file-name and all) is picked up from the very web-module class-loader, but as you would notice further, the log4j classes are initialized by the ear-loader itself with which the log4j classes are visible to all the other war-modules and hence don't even require re-initializing the log4j.properties...
    ====== THE RESOURCE CORRECTLY LOCATED BY THE WEB-CLASS-LOADER ======
    Resource found: log4j.properties. Loader: wes-ear.web.wes-wicket-1.3.X-SNAPSHOT:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/wes-wicket-1.3.X-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes/
    (from WEB-INF/classes/ in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/wes-wicket-1.3.X-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes)
    === ALL THE Log4j CLASSES BELOW ARE BEING INITIALIZED/LOADED BY THE EAR-CLASS-LOADER =====
    Class found: java.net.URL. Initiating loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Defining loader: jre.bootstrap:1.5.0_06. Source: jre bootstrap
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator (12024 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class found: org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator. Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.helpers.FileWatchdog (1875 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class found: org.apache.log4j.helpers.FileWatchdog. Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.PropertyWatchdog (753 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class found: org.apache.log4j.PropertyWatchdog. Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class found: java.io.InputStream. Initiating loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Defining loader: jre.bootstrap:1.5.0_06. Source: jre bootstrap
    Class found: java.io.FileInputStream. Initiating loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Defining loader: jre.bootstrap:1.5.0_06. Source: jre bootstrap
    Class found: java.util.Properties. Initiating loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Defining loader: jre.bootstrap:1.5.0_06. Source: jre bootstrap
    Class found: java.util.StringTokenizer. Initiating loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Defining loader: jre.bootstrap:1.5.0_06. Source: jre bootstrap
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.Appender (676 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class found: org.apache.log4j.Appender. Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender (5724 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)
    Class to be defined: org.apache.log4j.FileAppender (4764 bytes). Loader: wes-ear.root:0.0.0. Source: /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar (from application.xml <library-directory> in /oracle_apps/j2ee/portal/applications/wes-ear/lib)Thanks in advance and Regards,
    Farhan.
    Edited by: FarhanS on Nov 4, 2008 2:43 PM
    Edited by: FarhanS on Nov 4, 2008 2:47 PM

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