Hi,
Scenario 1:
Each application is deployed with the three jars under their respective
WEB-INF/lib directories.
Scenario 2:
Nothing is placed in the respective WEB-INF/lib directories. Rather the
three jars are placed in tomcat's common/lib directory.
Would the memory usage of tomcat differ
Scenario 1 will use more memory than scenarion 2.
The ratio depends on the internal architecture of the classes.
(What kind of object they create, where they store it)
If you just look at the core size that is needed to load
the classes it roughly directly proportional to the number
of webapp
