Hi guys, hoping someone has an answer to this:
I have a servlet and an applet running in the same webapp. The servlet needs to access a class the applet .jar contains. The applet is visible to the browser. Problem is: I need to access this applet utility class (or it could be any class really, outside the WEB-INF folder but inside the current webapp) from the servlet. I don't want to actually access the running applet on the user's end, just the .class on the server webapp (so I can instantiate it etc). I also don't want to have to keep a copy of this utility class with the servlet class as a work-around as it's rather inelegant. I have heard you can modify web.xml in the webapp\WEB-INF folder to allow access to any .class/.jar in the current webapp but I haven't been able to find how to do this. If you have any ideas or leads about this problem, please let us know. Thanks guys.
