On 18/10/2011 15:58, chad.da...@emc.com wrote: > >> Why would separate instances require their own jar files? Is it not >> possible to point two concurrently executing jvm's at the same set >> of jar files? >> > > It is entirely possible, of course. But you'll have some maintenance > work to do if ever you wish to change the jars for _one_ Tomcat > installation among many. > > > Yes, but is there a technical, i.e. JVM, reason that two running > instances of tomcat can't concurrently use the same shared > libraries?
None at all. Further, you can have both a $CATALINA_HOME/lib and a $CATALINA_BASE/lib with BASE always taking priority over HOME. Therefore, use HOME by default and override on a per instance basis if you need to. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
