Third party libraries best practice in Tomcat

Question

I am using Tomcat for hosting my Java Web and Web Service applications for a long time now. Mostly for Spring and Grails appli

Answer 1

I would go for Optional Packages: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/extensions/index.html

Steps:

1. Package your code, libraries in a jar/war.

2. In the MANIFEST.MF of the above declare the extension list jars

3. Referred them in the target applications