From 52768a0d198f38ae86131953dd13098f7185fd18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: markt Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:48:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about the classpath changes git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk@810977 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- RUNNING.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/RUNNING.txt b/RUNNING.txt index 8fd95a5bb..f8f2143d7 100644 --- 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. -- 2.11.0