Was able to solve this using a bootstrap mechanism. http://frank.zinepal.com/embedded-tomcat-class-loading-trickery was helpful.
Azeez On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Afkham Azeez <afk...@gmail.com> wrote: > According to http://yzb.hit.edu.cn/docs/class-loader-howto.html, > everything in the system classpath will be visible to webapps, and hence > will override the classes in the webapps, I think. So, the solution would be > to implement a bootstrap mechanism, just > like org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap, is it? > >