Communication between two web application in same server

Question

All,

I have 2 web applications, Web1 and Web2, deployed on my tomcat server. I want classes in Web1 to call methods on classes in Web2. One way to do this is using

Answer 1

Package the classes you want to share between web applications into a separate jar. Put them under common/lib so that the common classloader will load the classes and would be available to both web applications. Then expose the instance in web2 using jndi, look up them from web1 and invoke the methods.