Tomcat loads web module elements in the classpath for servlet execution and debugging in following order:
WEB-INF/classes directory of your web moduleWEB-INF/lib/*.jar directory of your web module$CATALINA_HOME/common/classes$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/*.jar$CATALINA_HOME/classes$CATALINA_HOME/lib/*.jar|
Tomcat 4.0.x does not support .zip files in the |
The IDE's Internal Tomcat installation, the $CATALINA_HOME
directory corresponds to the tomcat401 directory. Any libraries
shared by multiple web modules must be placed in any one of locations 3 through
8 in the above list. Do not add shared libraries to the tomcat401_base
directory.
For more information about class loading on Tomcat, see http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html .
| See also | |
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| The Tomcat 4.0.x Plugin Executing Web Modules |
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