Is there any other way around to avoid using this jar file directly in the lib folder of
tomcat? I have a tomcat instance that has a couple of other deployments that do not depend on Spring. How do I make those projects co-exist. Can I add this file as a dependency to my project's pom file? I remember doing that once, but then tomcat was not able to find this file and failed during startup. Well, I already tried that and got the following error: