Tomcat 3.2 will load servlets from the classpath. I believe that tomcat
3.3 will not do this out of the box, but you will be able to change the
startup scripts to enable it.
"Lu, Spencer" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that a servlet class invoked by Tomcat must reside in a
> subdirectory of <docBase>/WEB-INF/classes. Ideally I would like to be able
> to place my servlet class in a directory that is not under WEB-INF/classes.
> Is there any way to do this without changing the Tomcat source and
> recompiling it? If not, does anyone know why the developers coded Tomcat
> this way, instead of just loading the servlet from a directory in the
> classpath? Just curious. Thanks.
>
> Spencer
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