Hi
I have also same problem and have solved it by using shared folder.
Look at the catalina.properties file under $CATALINA_HOME/conf
You can look in to the common.loader an server.loader how to define loaders.
You should add loaders in the same way in the shared.loader.
I have created $CATALINA_HOME/shared and added my libraries here.
server.loader="${catalina.base}/shared"
Hope it helps.
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> From: amit.pa...@veritas.com
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: Tomcat 8 : Shared loader
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:00:51 +0000
>
> We develop multiple web application which happen to share the same stack
> (Spring, Hibernate,etc).
>
> Thinking of sharing these third party libraries instead of duplicating in
> each web app war.
>
> IIUC, putting those in Tomcat (8)'s lib folder might cause issues since the
> classes in there are loaded by a common loader.
>
> And sharing such libraries using the shared loader seems a better approach.
> Is my understanding correct ? Does it have any further issues ?
>
> That said, I don't see much documentation around using shared loader. Any
> documentation/help in this regard is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
