difference between endorsed and lib folders?

hi..

can somone please explain to me what is the difference between the
endorsed and lib folders in common folder in tomcat? i tried reading
the documentation but i couldn't figure it out.

"Elhanan" <emaayan@hotmail.com> said:
>can somone please explain to me what is the difference between the
>endorsed and lib folders in common folder in tomcat? i tried reading
>the documentation but i couldn't figure it out.

In short, there are some package names from which classes are only loaded
if the package files are located in the endorsed/ directory.

References:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/standards/
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/to...ader-howto.html
(for this latter, there is a chapter named "XML Parsers and JDK 1.4"
close to the end of the document; note though, this is for Tomcat 4.1;
the "endorsed" mechanism is slightly different for post-5.0 versions of
Tomcat).
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