Tomcat Class Loading

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Tomcat loads web module elements in the classpath for servlet execution and debugging in following order:

  1. WEB-INF/classes directory of your web module
  2. WEB-INF/lib/*.jar directory of your web module
  3. Bootstrap classes of your JVM
  4. System class loader classes
  5. tomcat-installation-dir/common/classes
  6. tomcat-installation-dir/common/lib/*.jar
  7. tomcat-installation-dir/classes
  8. tomcat-installation-dir/lib/*.jar
See Also
The Tomcat Plugin
Executing Web Modules

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