Well, shared/lib is better than common/lib (since it doesn't affect the
Tomcat classes). A declared servlet (via servlet in web.xml) will create
a new instance of the class for each context that it is used (actually, for
each servlet declaration that it is used). This actually holds true for
the
Diakovasilis [mailto:fdiak;lexel.com]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:23 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: shared jars amongst web apps.
Does anybody know of a location where I can put a jar file
that is shared
among the web apps of a tomcat instance, but not thought out
all instances
Does anybody know of a location where I can put a jar file that is shared
among the web apps of a tomcat instance, but not thought out all instances.
i.e. putting a jar in common/ would share that file throughout all instances
of tomcat, which I do not want. Short of explicitly including the
