Hi Peter,
used the shared/lib directory to add your web app shared jars to your
catalina.base.
My point is not about how to get it to work.
My point is: if commons-fileupload-1.0.jar comes with the Tomcat
installation anyway,
why restrict its use by having it in the server directory. If it
Because we strongly encourage webapps to be self-contained (all their
dependencies in WEB-INF/lib). Things like the XML parser are the
exception, not the rule. You don't need to move fileupload from server/lib
to common/lib: you can leave it there for tomcat's internal use and put
your own
