Tomcat 5 Class Loading

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Tomcat 5 loads web module elements in the class path for web module execution and debugging in following order:

  1. Bootstrap classes of your JVM
  2. System class loader classes
  3. WEB-INF/classes directory of your web module
  4. WEB-INF/lib/*.jar directory of your web module
  5. tomcat-installation-dir/common/classes
  6. tomcat-installation-dir/common/endorsed/*.jar
  7. tomcat-installation-dir/common/lib/*.jar
  8. tomcat-installation-dir/shared/classes
  9. tomcat-installation-dir/shared/lib/*.jar
See Also
About the Tomcat Plugin
About Running Web Modules

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