Amen brother!

Sharing jars between web apps is just a Bad Idea (tm). 

Disk is cheap, and so is the time required to copy a jar. 

...unless you are an ISP with 1000+ web apps running on a sinlge box,
then it *might* be OK, but even then, I would stop and think very
carefully before doing it.

Larry

On 6/14/05, Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Never. I share jars. I wish I hadn't.
> 
> When you upgrade JSTL, struts, etc - all get the upgrade for free - but that
> means ultra stable apps which haven't been touched in years may "magically
> break".
> 
> [Exception - log4j ... I like have a common/lib log4j]
> 
> -Tim
> 
> Charl Gerber wrote:
> 
> > When do you share jars (struts, log4j, jstl, etc) for
> > webapps in the common/lib directory and when does each
> > app need its own "copy" of the jars?
> >
> > Log4j we've found by trail and error is better to have
> > a jar per webapp, as the loggers seems to overwrite
> > each other, but which commonly used jars (struts,
> > jstl) can be shared?
> >
> 
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