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Brian,

Brian Munroe wrote:
> I was always told that Tomcat ignored the CLASSPATH and
> not to use it.  Maybe that is one of those white lies they tell
> newbies to alleviate problems? :)

The CLASSPATH environment variable is certainly not ignored by Tomcat.
Here's part of the startup script from TC 5.5:

# Add on extra jar files to CLASSPATH
if [ -n "$JSSE_HOME" ]; then
CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$JSSE_HOME"/lib/jcert.jar:"$JSSE_HOME"/lib/jnet.jar:"$JSSE_HOME"/lib/jsse.jar
fi
CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/bootstrap.jar:"$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/commons-logging-api.jar

Setting your own CLASSPATH environment variable is a recipe for disaster.

- -chris

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