Thrid party libs and the like should be in WEB-INF\lib. Tomcats classloader
will automatically pick up and load these jars.
Your webapps classes should indeed be in WEB-INF\classes.
sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Willeke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: WAR deployment
> But where do you findout what should/could be in this file?
> If I look at the examples.war file, it appears to contain all that is in
> the:
> \webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes
>
> Is this typical or redundent?
>
> My specific issue is I can not find where to place "common" lib files
> that can be found by the a servlet. Even if it is placed in the:
> \webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes
> I continue to get an error that the class can not be found even though
> there is a jar file in this directory that contains the file AND the JVM
> has a classpath that includes the jar file.
> Any help or pointers to some docs as to howw this is all supposed to go
> together would be great!
> -jim
>
