Hi, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:35, Tom Brown<tom at ng23.net> wrote: > tomcat is 6.0.18 > > if they are in > /etc/<appname> and /var/lib/<appname>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/foo > then the webapps location wins. > > any thoughts? Does this answer your question? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html HTH, Filipe