On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 06:38:03PM -0800, Oleg wrote: : If I have 200 users deployed on tomcat with 99% using identical : classes, would it be ok to move all classes to shared/classes : directory? Will that give better memory usage? Also, can I later add : the classes that are different directly to WEB-INF/classes and will : they be given priority?
You've already received answers to the other points, so I'll address just the last question: it depends With hierarchical classloaders, you can get yourself into a right snit when 1/ there's version skew between the per-webapp class and the one in shared/lib; and 2/ when a class in shared/lib depends on a class that's in the per-webapp area (that is, it can't see a dependent class because it's out of the scope of the current classloader). IIRC, both result in NoClassDefFoundError, and both can be a mess to sort out if you don't know in advance where to start looking. -QM -- software -- http://www.brandxdev.net tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]