Tomcat 3.2 will load servlets from the classpath. I believe that tomcat 3.3 will not do this out of the box, but you will be able to change the startup scripts to enable it. "Lu, Spencer" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've noticed that a servlet class invoked by Tomcat must reside in a > subdirectory of <docBase>/WEB-INF/classes. Ideally I would like to be able > to place my servlet class in a directory that is not under WEB-INF/classes. > Is there any way to do this without changing the Tomcat source and > recompiling it? If not, does anyone know why the developers coded Tomcat > this way, instead of just loading the servlet from a directory in the > classpath? Just curious. Thanks. > > Spencer
