posted 18 years ago
You also have the option of putting classes into a jar file and then placing the jar file in WEB-INF/lib.
In addition to this, almost all Application servers have a place to put jar files that are shared between all applications running on a particular server instance. With Tomcat, it's in the directory shared/lib under your server instance. For more information, see the Tomcat documentation or post his question on the Tomcat forum.