On 28 June 2010 14:07, Ockleford Paul (NHS Connecting for Health) < paul.ocklef...@nhs.net> wrote:
> Pretty much and I don't know the reason why that is, I am not in charge of > the linux servers I only started looking into it because I couldn't get my > method to work but it worked on my local windows environment. The entire web > app is classes so its actually a class in WEB-INF\classes, that for some > unknown reason the entire package is also sym linked in > tomcat\common\classes. > > Can you think of any reason why someone would do that? I can only assume > that at some point in the past someone else has had classloading issues and > decided that that hack would solve it. That is unconfirmed though. > > Another option would be if two different webapps "need" to share static variables (such as a singleton) in a common class. At that point, the common class must only be loaded once, so must be in common (or higher). - Peter
