Tomcat Class Loading
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Tomcat loads web module elements in the classpath for servlet execution and
debugging in following order:
- WEB-INF/classes directory of your web module
- WEB-INF/lib/*.jar directory of your web module
- Bootstrap classes of your JVM
- System class loader classes
- tomcat-installation-dir/common/classes
- tomcat-installation-dir/common/lib/*.jar
- tomcat-installation-dir/classes
- tomcat-installation-dir/lib/*.jar
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