On 20/04/2015 14:22, Thusitha Thilina Dayaratne wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone tell me what is the purpose of having WebappLoader and > WebappClassLoader in Tomcat?
WebappLoader is the Tomcat object that a user can configure that represents the class loader. It remains the same across web application stop/start. WebappClassLoader is the actual class loader. Every time the web application is started, a new instance is created and used. > As I understand WebappClassLoader is per web application and WebAppLoader for > tomcat server instance. Am I wrong? Yes. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org