This generally works for serving files and JSPs - though I doubt that the classloader works that way. If all your webapps need a common jar file it probably would be better to put this jar file into the $DOMAIN_HOME/lib directory.
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Wolfram Rittmeyer
>Hi there, this is my second question/problem.
>
>I would like to be able to in the web applications WEB-INF directory use
>an symbolic link to the lib directory (to make sure that all
>webapplications that should use same jar files do use them)
>
>the problem is that whenever I set up lib to be a symbolic link, my web
>application no longer starts (I have some servlets that start up at the
>begining) and inthe logs I see ClassNotfoundException:s
>
>after searching a bit I found that to get symlinks working I needed to
>turn it on bu using the allowLinking property in
>[WEB-APP-DIR]/WEB-INF/sun-web.xml like this..
>
><sun-web-app>
> <property name="allowLinking" value="true"/>
></sun-web-app>
>
>
>but symbolic links still do no work..
>
>do I do something wrong? or is it not possible to use symbolic links
>for the lib directory ?