> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net]
> Subject: Re: Self-Contained Web Applications
> 
> Well, having to include commons-dbcp is a bit of an implementation
> detail, here. I should be able to include only my own JDBC driver and
> have Tomcat figure out that commons-dbcp should be available elsewhere
> (say, in the lib directory).

But now you're asking commons-dbcp classes (loaded by the common classloader) 
to look _downwards_ in the classloader hierarchy to find the JDBC driver 
they're using for the connections.  I don't think that's going to happen - ever.

 - Chuck


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