在看tomcat源码是发现了一个比较有趣的配置文件-------catalina.properties
这个配置文件分为四部分
第一部分:安全设置
第二部分:类加载设置
common.loader
通常情况下,common.loader是已经设置好的,不需要修改。
common.loader包括以下路径:
- unpacked classes and resources in
$CATALINA_BASE/lib
- JAR files in
$CATALINA_BASE/lib
- unpacked classes and resources in
$CATALINA_HOME/lib
- JAR files in
$CATALINA_HOME/lib
- annotations-api.jar — JavaEE annotations classes.
- catalina.jar — Implementation of the Catalina servlet container portion of Tomcat.
- catalina-ant.jar — Tomcat Catalina Ant tasks.
- catalina-ha.jar — High availability package.
- catalina-tribes.jar — Group communication package.
- ecj-*.jar — Eclipse JDT Java compiler.
- el-api.jar — EL 2.2 API.
- jasper.jar — Tomcat Jasper JSP Compiler and Runtime.
- jasper-el.jar — Tomcat Jasper EL implementation.
- jsp-api.jar — JSP 2.2 API.
- servlet-api.jar — Servlet 3.0 API.
- tomcat-api.jar — Several interfaces defined by Tomcat.
- tomcat-coyote.jar — Tomcat connectors and utility classes.
- tomcat-dbcp.jar — Database connection pool implementation based on package-renamed copy of Apache Commons Pool and Apache Commons DBCP.
- tomcat-i18n-**.jar — Optional JARs containing resource bundles for other languages. As default bundles are also included in each individual JAR, they can be safely removed if no internationalization of messages is needed.
- tomcat-jdbc.jar — An alternative database connection pool implementation, known as Tomcat JDBC pool. See documentation for more details.
- tomcat-util.jar — Common classes used by various components of Apache Tomcat.
这些都是系统和工具类,比如数据库的驱动类库、log 类库可以放到此处,web应用的jar 不要放到common.loader 中。
server.loader 和 shared.loader
在common.loader 加载完后,tomcat启动程序会检查 catalina.properties文件中配置的server.loader和shared.loader是否设置
如果设置,读取 tomcat下对应的server和shared这两个目录的类库。
server和shared是对应tomcat目录下的两个目录,默认的Tomcat7 下这两个目录是没有的。
设置方法:
server.loader=${catalina.base}/server/classes,${catalina.base}/server/lib/*.jar
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/server/classes,${catalina.base}/server/lib/*.jar
同时需要在tomcat目录下创建 server和shared目录结构并将公用的、应用类放到里面。
Bootstrap--->System--->/WEB-INF/classes---> /WEB-INF/lib/*.jar---> Common --->Server --->Shared
catalinaLoader = createClassLoader("server", commonLoader); sharedLoader = createClassLoader("shared", commonLoader); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ public void init() throws Exception { initClassLoaders(); Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(catalinaLoader); SecurityClassLoad.securityClassLoad(catalinaLoader); // Load our startup class and call its process() method if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("Loading startup class"); Class<?> startupClass = catalinaLoader.loadClass ("org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina"); Object startupInstance = startupClass.newInstance(); // Set the shared extensions class loader if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("Setting startup class properties"); String methodName = "setParentClassLoader"; Class<?> paramTypes[] = new Class[1]; paramTypes[0] = Class.forName("java.lang.ClassLoader"); Object paramValues[] = new Object[1]; paramValues[0] = sharedLoader; Method method = startupInstance.getClass().getMethod(methodName, paramTypes); method.invoke(startupInstance, paramValues); //初始化tomcat的守护进程 catalinaDaemon = startupInstance; }
源码在tomcat启动时基本是采用catalinaLoader来加载tomcat自身相关的jar,但catalinaLoader的父Loader就是commonLoader,而且org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina这个类其实就在common文件夹下面,而在catalina.properties文件中serverLoader配置默认为空,所以我基本任务这里的catalinaLoader就是commonLoader
第三部分:不需要扫描的类设置
第四部分:字符缓存设置