That's right. But somehow the launcher needs additional classes in this case. And the appserv-launch.jar's manifest shows that appserv-rt.jar is NOT there on the list of jars
it looks for.
The system-classpath implies the classpath that will be looked into by the so-called System Class Loader. This class loader looks for the classes set by the -cp argument.
If you look closely at domain.xml, then by default, there aren't any jars in system-classpath since the only built-in jar is appserv-launch.jar. This is how the server starts. Apparently,
server needs additional logging classes in this case, and that's why the suggestion.
Thanks,
Kedar
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