Title: Deploying .class files to a symlink directory instead of /web-inf/classes (easy question?)

Might be an easy one.
We're installing Tomcat 5.0.28 and Axis 1.1 on several machines. We usually set up an "operations" and "test" version at the same time.

Typically, we'll install .html/.jsp/whatever files within the /tomcat/classes directory, but that directory is just a symlink to something like /usr/deployment/classes. I found that when I did this in Axis1.1 I'd get "class not found" exceptions and the like.

1) Can this be done? Can I put my services and .class files in /usr/classes and just point /axis/WEB-INF/classes/myproject to that area? Did I do something wrong before?

2) Is there another way to simulate this setup? Reason being that we don't want to come along and upgrade Axis to 1.2 or Tomcat to 5.5.x and wipe out our development code.

I tried reading through old lists and didn't seem to find an answer. I'm hoping it's something as simple as adding a classpath in the .wsdd file or just that it's not possible. If that is the case it's okay, but wanted to rule it out.

Fyi, we're installing on an SGI (not sure it matters).

Thanks in advance,

Andy

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