The TM4J JAR files must NOT be placed inside the webapps lib folders or they will be loaded with a different classloader!
................... <Resource name="TM4JProvider" auth="Container" scope="Shareable" type="org.tm4j.topicmap.TopicMapProvider"/> <ResourceParams name="TM4JProvider"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value>org.tm4j.jndi.spi.ProviderFactory</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> ......................
............ <Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" cachingAllowed="true" charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper" cookies="true" crossContext="true" debug="9" displayName="jndi sharing test" docBase="C:\Programme\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\JNDIProvider" mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper" path="/JNDIProvider" privileged="false" reloadable="true" swallowOutput="false" useNaming="true" wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper"> <ResourceLink global="TM4JProvider" name="provider" type="org.tm4j.topicmap.TopicMapProvider"/> </Context> ..............
Replace the docBase and path elements with the ones for your webapp