Hello Nehal, > I have 2 of my application specific jarfiles which need to be used by all > other applications too in tomcat 5.5.9 on linux. Hence, i am placing both > the jarfiles into common/lib of tomcat binary and linking them into > shared/lib of application which use them. > > But, unfortunately, i get Null Pointer Exception. And my jarfiles or say > classes are not getting loaded. > > If i put those jarfiles into application's WEB-INF/lib, it works fine. > > One of my jar contains servlet API in it. > > What could be the possible reason of failing the class loading from > common/lib path? Have a look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html If you have placed a jar in commons/lib, it is not needed to put them into sharded. I recommend to use shared/libs for your webapps only. Or even better, do not use any shared directory if there is no special reason for. A webapp is an independent application and WEB-INF/lib is the just made for libs needed by this application.
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