So, I ran with JVM option "-verbose:class" Then I requested a jsp from app1 and the console printed:
... [Loaded javax.el.ExpressionFactory from file:/C:/apache-tomcat-7.0.27/lib/el-api.jar] [Loaded org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl from file:/C:/sandpit-28/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/app2/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-2.1-6.1.14.jar] [Loaded javax.el.ELContext from file:/C:/apache-tomcat-7.0.27/lib/el-api.jar] [Loaded org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl from file:/C:/sandpit-28/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/app2/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-2.1-6.1.14.jar] ... This seems to indicate that the class is being loaded by app1 from app2/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-2.1-6.1.14.jar. No? Dale
