On 15/06/2016 11:00, Amit Pande wrote: > We develop multiple web application which happen to share the same stack > (Spring, Hibernate,etc). > > Thinking of sharing these third party libraries instead of duplicating in > each web app war.
Why? > IIUC, putting those in Tomcat (8)'s lib folder might cause issues since the > classes in there are loaded by a common loader. What issues? > And sharing such libraries using the shared loader seems a better approach. Why? > Is my understanding correct ? No idea. You have not explained your understanding yet. > Does it have any further issues ? Further issues compared to what? > That said, I don't see much documentation around using shared loader. Any > documentation/help in this regard is highly appreciated. There isn't much call for the shared loader. You need to go back to the 5.5.x documentation for a diagram that includes the shared loader. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
