> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Self-Contained Web Applications > > 1. Just but mysql-connector-j.x.y.z.jar into WEB-INF/lib
But still use container-provided connection pooling when the container classes are loaded by the common classloader. This is what I was referring to when I said the webapp classloader would have to get its own copies of Tomcat classes. Might be doable by extending the classpath of the webapp classloader to include some directory containing jars/classes that would be available to each webapp (eg, commons-dbcp or tomcat-dbcp) but still loaded by each webapp rather than some shared classloader. Doesn't sound like too much work, but does introduce potential versioning complications. - 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.