I'm tasked with integrating a collection of native libraries into a web application running in a Tomcat7 container. I already found out that in order to be able to restart the application without restarting the whole server I must load the libs using the Tomcat "shared"-loader, outside the actual application.
For that I followed the accepted answer in this SO question: Shared JNI library (.so) in Tomcat - UnsatisfiedLinkError, but no luck so far. As described I created a small "DLLBootstrapper" java class for loading the libs, compiled it and put it in "CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib" next to the libs I'm loading. In the "catalina.properties" I set the path of the "shared.loader" to that folder.
However when I try to obtain the "DLLBootstrapper" in my application using Class.forName("msm.DLLBootstrapper"); I get a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: msm.DLLBootstrapper.
What am I missing here?
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention java.library.path is set to the CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib folder.
