I am upgrading an app with an embedded Tomcat 5.5.X to use Tomcat 7.0.X. The app has a folder ${catalina.home}/common/lib containing .jar files that are shared across web apps. If I change the common.loader property to include this directory as below:
common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/.jar,${catalina.home}/common/lib,${catalina.home}/common/lib/*.jar
I get class not found errors on loading some web apps. The needed .jar files are in ${catalina.home}/common/lib. If I simply copy the .jar files from ${catalina.home}/common/lib to ${catalina.base}/lib, every thing works as expected. However, the location of ${catalina.home}/common/lib is referenced in scripts and code and is not easily changed. So to get the app to work I seem to have to duplicate the collection of .jar files.
It is as if the additional directories in the common.loader property are ignored. What am I missing here?
