The announcement reads: -------- The new class loader scheme in this release ignores your CLASSPATH setting. Instead, you may add needed jars to Tomcat's "lib/apps", "lib/common", and "lib/container" directories. See the "readme" file in Tomcat's "doc" directory for details. Also supported are two System properties: org.apache.tomcat.apps.classpath org.apache.tomcat.common.classpath which add their listed classes and jars to the jars in "lib/apps" and "lib/common", respectively. -------------- And yet my CLASSPATH and all jars get picked up (not that this is a problem ;-). I've inspected tomcat.sh and didn't see anything that would suggest the above. Did I miss something? Am I reading this the wrong way? Bojan