Thanks for the pointer, I'll definitely read the article.
Are you saying I can put a docroot directory (not a jar) at the front of my webapp classloader URL list and then just have it followed by WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/*.jar? [I don't want to have to explicitly list the jars either.]
Ideally I still want this all at the web app loader level so I can still have multiple non-colliding web apps.
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