Access to a global resource in Tomcat

[Tushar Madhukar]

Hi,

I have native library which I want to be available to all my webapps running inside a Tomcat instance. How can I initialize and access such a global resource?

Thanks

[Ben Souther]

Tomcat provides directories for shared resources.

They are tomcat/shared/lib and tomcat/shared/classes.

The hierarchy was simplified in version 6.
I believe it's now just tomcat/lib

Be sure to read the release notes carefully.
There is a section in there on JNI resources shared by multiple apps with some specific information on initializing them to insure that one app doesn't lock the others out.