I having trouble with Tomcat 4.0.x Tomcat when deploying a war file.... I'm getting classdefnotfound exceptions in my web app. It turns out that this happens only when I am using jar files that are external to the WEB-INF/lib (ie. in the [tomcat_home]/common/lib directory) and so it seems that Tomcat stops looking for classes in the WEB-INF/lib once it uses the external library - because as soon as I put all all the required libs inside the WEB-INF/lib path, the web app works fine. However, I have classes that are needed for multiple apps I would like to deploy the jar in only one place. Can anyone explain to me how I can use classes in a jar file from the external lib and still have access to my WEB-INF/lib jars too??? Thanks, -Eric -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: