Startup Classpath Not What I Expected

[dadams07]

I'm unable to see the files in my WEB-INF/lib directory during startup. This  ISpreventing me from doing time initialization with a context listener class that I had defined in my web.xml like this:

<listener>

<listener-class>com.uprr.tns.TnsContextListener</listener-class>

</listener>

The resulting error message looks like this:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.uprr.tns.TnsContextListener

java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't find log4j configuration file tns-log4j.xml on class path:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\lib\tools.jar;C:\software\jboss\EWS\1.0\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\software\jboss\EWS\1.0/lib/spring-agent.jar

Obviously the classapth at this point doesn't look like I thought it would. Is there a way to tell Jboss to add folders to the classpath so they're available to listener classes? (Note: The log4j config file is just one of several that I need to read on a one time basis at starttup).

[dadams07]

I mis-spoke slightly. I re-checked the WAR, and the log4j config file is in WEB-INF classes, which means the classpath seaches should find it. Yet this code fails to do so:

if (logger == null) {
   final URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(CONFIG_FILE_NAME);
      if (url == null) {
         final String classPath = System.getProperty("java.class.path");
final String message = format(NO_CONFIG_FILE, CONFIG_FILE_NAME, classPath);  
System.err.println(message); 
throw new RuntimeException(message);
}