Add a note about the classpath changes

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk@810977 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/RUNNING.txt b/RUNNING.txt
index 8fd95a5..f8f2143 100644 (file)
--- a/RUNNING.txt
+++ b/RUNNING.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ of $CATALINA_HOME:
 
 * temp - Directory used by the JVM for temporary files (java.io.tmpdir)
 
+Note that by default Tomcat will first try to load classes and JARs from
+$CATALINA_BASE/lib and then $CATALINA_HOME/lib. You can place instance specific
+JARs and classes (eg JDBC drivers) in $CATALINA_BASE/lib whilst keeping the
+standard Tomcat JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/lib.  
+
 If you do not set $CATALINA_BASE, $CATALINA_BASE will default to the same value
 as $CATALINA_HOME, which means that the same directory is used for all relative
 path resolutions.