> From: George Sexton [mailto:geor...@mhsoftware.com] > Subject: RE: jars in common/lib directory Vs webapps/APP_NAME/WEB- > INF/lib > > The one case I can say where this may be desirable is log4j. Because of > dependencies, log4j.jar has to go in common/lib, and log4j.properties > has to go into common/classes.
Only if you want to mix together the log entries from all of your webapps. The preferred way is to keep them separate, and put log4j.jar and log4j.properties under each webapp's WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes directories, respectively. > My reading of the catalina.properties file is I could create my > own common/lib and common/classes directories and put them into > the common class loader by editing the catalina.properties file. You certainly can, but it's a small performance hit and likely a kludge for something else being wrong. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
