diff --git a/appserver/tests/appserv-tests/devtests/web/loadClassesFromZipFile/WebTest.java b/appserver/tests/appserv-tests/devtests/web/loadClassesFromZipFile/WebTest.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the
+ * Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License,
+ * version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ */
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.*;
+import com.sun.ejte.ccl.reporter.*;
+
+/*
+ * Unit test for 4657979 ("WEB:JSP:JDBC:Server failed to load zip file under
+ * ../WEB-INF/lib directory")
+ */
+public class WebTest {
+
+    private static SimpleReporterAdapter stat
+        = new SimpleReporterAdapter("appserv-tests");
+    private static final String TEST_NAME = "load-classes-from-zip-file";
+    private static final String EXPECTED_RESPONSE = "true";
+
+    private String host;
+    private String port;
+    private String contextRoot;
+
+    public WebTest(String[] args) {
+        host = args[0];
+        port = args[1];
+        contextRoot = args[2];
+    }
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        stat.addDescription("Unit test for 4657979");
+        WebTest webTest = new WebTest(args);
+        webTest.doTest();
+        stat.printSummary(TEST_NAME);
+    }
+
+    public void doTest() {
+        try { 
+            invoke();
+            stat.addStatus(TEST_NAME, stat.PASS);
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            System.out.println(TEST_NAME + " test failed");
+            stat.addStatus(TEST_NAME, stat.FAIL);
+            ex.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void invoke() throws Exception {
+        
+        String url = "http://" + host + ":" + port + contextRoot
+                     + "/TestServlet";
+        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)
+            (new URL(url)).openConnection();
+
+        int code = conn.getResponseCode();
+        if (code != 200) {
+            throw new Exception("Unexpected return code: " + code);
+        }
+
+        InputStream is = null;
+        BufferedReader input = null;
+        try {
+            is = conn.getInputStream();
+            input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
+            String line = input.readLine();
+            if (!EXPECTED_RESPONSE.equals(line)) {
+                throw new Exception("Wrong response. Expected: " + 
+                    EXPECTED_RESPONSE + ", received: " + line);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            try {
+                if (is != null) {
+                    is.close();
+                }
+            } catch (IOException ioe) {
+                // ignore
+            }
+            try {
+                if (input != null) {
+                    input.close();
+                }
+            } catch (IOException ioe) {
+                // ignore
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}