Hi,
I'm trying to understand why regardless of whether or not a particular version of
Xerces is present in a webapp's WEB-INF/lib, the version in Tomcat's common/lib is
always picked up. With other simple classes sharing the same namespace that I have
used to test this, the version in the
AFAIK, there shouldn't be a Xerces in common/lib.
That having been said, Xerces is handled specially in Tomcat 4.x. If there
is a copy in common/lib or shared/lib, then it will use that one in
preference to WEB-INF/lib. Of course, it always checks the System
ClassLoader first, so it will
