Re: Non-servlet class cannot access jar file in ./WEB-INF/lib when a Servlet does

Hi, all classes of a webapp which do not come from tomcat server itself do share a common classloader which is an aggregation of the various classes in all WEB-INF/lib/*.jar and in WEB-INF/classes/**/*.class If you get a NoClassDefFoundException, that probably mean you asked some class in server

RE: Non-servlet class cannot access jar file in ./WEB-INF/lib when a Servlet does

Jose, I have a similar servlet which initializes a singleton class to load the Tomcat resources for AXIS web service. The servlet is loaded at startup. This singleton class uses classes from a jar file located in WEB-INF/lib. MY servlet and singleton and other classes are in WEB-INF/classes.

RE: Non-servlet class cannot access jar file in ./WEB-INF/lib when a Servlet does

Hi, thanks a lot for your comments about the files with the same name... they are not classes ok, let me explain... I'm using the javax.mail package, which is in a jar, called mailapi.jar, and in order to use this package we also need the JavaBeans activation framework, packed in a jar, called