Why doesn Tomcat find classes in jars in the WEB-INF/lib directory?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=444337 Created: Jun 24, 2001 Author: Alessandro A. Garbagnati (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=32727) Question originally posed by Taruvai Subramaniam (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=23676 According to the Servlet 2.2 specifications: 9.4: Directory Structure A web application exists as a structured hierarchy of directories. The root of this hierarchy serves as a document root for serving files that are part of this context. For example, for a web application located at /catalog in a web server, the index.html file located at the base of the web application hierarchy can be served to satisfy a request to /catalog/index.html. A special directory exists within the application hierarchy named WEB-INF . This directory contains all things related to the application that aren t in the document root of the application. It is important to note that the WEB-INF node is not part of the public document tree of the application. No
