I have a requirement to load a given class via a . I'm trying read class annotations like @WebService that are mentioned in classes. But, I'm getting ClassNotFoundException since the classloader of org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener
which is the tomcat classloader cannot load classes in a webapp. Only the webapp classloader can do that.
How I can get around this issue? Should I try to load the jar file separately, and read the classes?