Both. You've made the incorrect assumption that "made visible" means "made visible to web applications", which is incorrect. A classloader makes classes and resources visible to whoever has access to the classloader; webapps do not have access to the Catalina classloader.
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Tomcat is the one that processes the servlet mappings, so the CGIServlet needs to be visible only to Tomcat, not the rest of the webapp.
GREAT explanation ... I hadn't looked at it this way. Thank you very much! Knowing is half the battle. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]