Hi all,

I'm trying to set up tomcat and port an application that I developed and tested using 
Jrun, being new to the environment and I have two questions. My first question is 
adding additional jar files like jdbc jar files. I've been reading through a lot of 
material trying to figure out how to set up tomcat environment to do so, couldn't find 
any clear references. Under Jrun every web-application has a user classpath that can 
be modified for additional jar files and third party software. I can't find any such 
feature in tomcat. Can someone please give me some advice or where to find information 
on this issue? 

I haven't read through all documentation yet but the general impression I've been 
getting is that to modify tomcat's environment and behavior the server must be rebuilt 
and can't be changed by simply switching the run time environment that supports a new 
feature. This brings me to my second question, in the document 
tomcat-3.2/tomcat-ssl-howto.html it is indicates that to use Tomcat with SSL it has to 
rebuild. Does that mean that if I download the binary I will not have the version that 
works with SSL? Or better yet if someday in the future I needed to add something 
that's not part of the features of the download then I would have to download and 
rebuild to get it?

I thank you all in advance for you patience and help. As you may have guessed I'm new 
to both tomcat and Linux.

Leila

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