Application server classloaders

You can associate one or more Application server classloaders with an application server. These classloaders normally contain general purpose utility libraries.

The default configuration, used to create new application servers as well as the shipped application server, does not contain any application server classloaders.

To make use of application server classloaders, perform these steps:

1. Create one or more Shared libraries. For more information, see the Administer shared libraries topic in Administration.
2. Create one or more Application server classloaders. Application server classloaders using the same Classloading mode are combined into one classloader by the runtime. This means that although you can define many application server classloaders, the run time has at most two appplication server classloaders -- one for PARENT_FIRST mode and one for PARENT_LAST mode. For more information, see the Associate a shared library with an application server topic in Administration.