Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi All,

This question is specific to Tomcat.

I'm using TC 5.0.30.

JSTL Is working fine -- I have the standard.jar and jstl.jar files in my
"WEB-INF/lib" directory.

The problem is that I have several web applications that use JSTL and
therefore several "WEB-INF/lib" directories. Rather than copy the two JSTL
JAR files to every "WEB-INF/lib" directory I'd rather put them in one
central location and have them available for all web applications. Normally,
to do this, the JARS should be placed in "$CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib".
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work with these two JARs for some
reason.

So, my first question is why can't I just put these two JARs in
"$CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib" and have them shared across all web
applications?

Second, is there a place I can put these two JARs so they ARE shared
across all web apps?

TIA.