I'm trying to enable the shared classloader on Tomcat 6.0.20 (Java 1.6.0_15
on Mac OSX 10.6). I've put this line in conf/catalina.properties:
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

I've dumped a few dozen jars in the shared/lib directory. These are found
when I start Tomcat, but the jars in a deployed WAR are not found. The
problem manifests itself as a ClassNotFoundException on on
org.hibernate.SessionFactory, which is located in the web app's WEB-INF/lib
directory, and not the shared/lib directory. As a test, I added the web
app's lib dir to the shared loader, like this:

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar,${catalina.base}/webapps/WorkList/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar

That's obviously bad as an actual fix, but the app loads in that
configuration. Any ideas? What I'd like is the shared class loader as a
supplement to the webapp classloader.

Many thanks for your help!

Tim Berglund