It seems that I have run into something that seems a bit strange. I have configured 4 separate web applications to each have their own context.xml files. I have also configured one of the web applications to have a realm. It seems to me, when you configure a realm, tomcat forces you to put what ever jdbc driver jar that you need, to be put into the $CATALINA_HOME/lib directory? If this is not how it works, then I'm missing some piece of configuration knowledge. If it is, isn't it a bit counter intuitive in keeping each individual applications jars in the context's own WEB-INF/lib folder?
I'm curious about how this is supposed to work. - Josh