If there are common classes it will be very hard to tell which one will be loaded by class loader
check this document, http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Propes, Barry L <barry.l.pro...@citi.com>wrote: > Sorry for any confusion there - I meant tomcat/lib, not WEB-INF/lib. > > Ok, I imagine that is a problem then. I haven't perused both jars, but I > imagine there's some redundancy in there! > > Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:46 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: ODBC jar files > > > From: Propes, Barry L [mailto:barry.l.pro...@citi.com] > > Subject: ODBC jar files > > > Will it hurt to have two different odbc jar files in the lib folder? > > Which lib folder are you referring to? Tomcat's lib folder, or WEB-INF/lib > of the webapp? > > If any class names are common to both jars, you *will* run into trouble. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Ashish www.ayurwellness.com www.mysoftwareneeds.com