Including external jar in Tomcat ClassPath

Question

In Tomcat I want to use a jar inside a web application. The jar file will exist outside of the Tomcat directory.

To include the jar file in tomcat classpath, I modi

Answer 1

I find myself copying extra JARs, which should be available for all contexts and should therefor go into the root loader, into the following directory:

 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\lib

But this only possible if you have access to this directory, which might not be the case for all ISPs. At least you can do it at home.

Bye