George McKInney typed the following on 08:52 06/12/2000 -0800
>General consensus here seems (in hindsight) to be that <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib is
>***NOT*** the place to put .jar files UNLESS the Tomcat administrator can
>ensure that every app that will be installed will be happy with them.
>Otherwise, the webapp should keep the .jars it needs in its own WEB-INF/lib
>even if that means some duplication of .jar files across the collection of
>webapps.
I use symlinks (Unix of course) to point from WEB-INF/lib to jar files in
appropriate locations. This makes it easier to keep them updated, and
is especially handy for development.
Kief
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