That was part of the cleanup of where jar files are located to make it 
easier to document/install jar files for the different class loaders.
The lib sub directories are there so that common and server can use an
optional classes directory for things like prop files.  The 
catalina/docs/dev/classloaders.html file has been updated to document
the changes.

Glenn

Jon Stevens wrote:
> 
> Ok,
> 
> I'm sure it is me not paying attention, but is there some reason why the
> tomcat 4.0 nightly directory structure looks like this now:
> 
> common/lib/
>  100 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       98496 Feb 22 03:46 jndi.jar
>   56 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       53553 Feb 22 03:46 naming.jar
>   76 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       74747 Feb 22 03:46 servlet.jar
> 
> server/lib/
>  488 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff      498094 Feb 22 03:46 catalina.jar
>  184 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff      187162 Feb 22 03:46 crimson.jar
>   32 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       29871 Feb 22 03:46
> jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar
>   28 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       28404 Feb 22 03:46 jaxp.jar
>   32 -rw-r--r--   1 jon      staff       30543 Feb 22 03:46 warp.jar
> 
> In other words, why are things now in a nested /lib directory? Is that for
> classloader issues?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -jon
> 
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