On 15/06/16 4:06 pm, "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>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? >> To avoid jar duplication and improve memory footprint > >> 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? >> Since loaded by a common class loader , the jars put in here will be >>available to tomcat internal classes,even if not required , also need be >>to thread safe. > >> And sharing such libraries using the shared loader seems a better >>approach. > >Why? >> As loaded by shared loader which seems to be meant for sharing >>libraries across web apps ŠI guess here also the thread safely concern >>exists , need to validate though. > >> Is my understanding correct ? > >No idea. You have not explained your understanding yet. >> Hope it is explained now. > >> Does it have any further issues ? > >Further issues compared to what? >> It was a general awareness question to get to know if people ran into >>some issues after putting jars in tomcat¹s shared loader's path. > >> 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 >> Thanks for this. In absence of clear documentation in recent release, I >>was doubtful if it was deprecated. > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
