> > Hold a "master copy" of struts.jar and put only symbolic links to it
> > into your webapps/{app}/WEB-INF/lib (on unix - on windows I think
> > "alias" would work but don't know). If you are brave enough you
> > can try tomcat 3.3m1, which has a directory to hold jars shared by
> > more webapps. I think the same holds for tomcat4, too. Don't know
> > of other servlet containers what can be done there. incze
>
> There is such a directory in Tomcat 4.0 ($CATALINA_HOME/lib), but struts.jar will
> not work if you place it there -- among other things, the controller servlet
> class will be loaded from the shared class loader instead of your web app class
> loader, so that it will not be able to see any of the classes you actually store
> in WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib.
>
> Always put struts.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of your webapps.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
Sorry. It was REALLY not the first time that you had to put down
these words ("Always put struts.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory
of your webapps"). I was too glad of that shared lib directories.
So, reamins the master copy with that links/aliases. incze
