Static State Shared from Libs Shared Among Webapps

One of the disadvantages of placing application libraries in the Tomcat lib folder is thread safety issues.

... if any of the classes has static state, you will find that the state is now shared across all webapps. This can cause the objects / types from one webapp to be seen by another, which can cause problems.

Stephen C http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12162654/how-to-make-war-file-take-up-less-memory

URL Parts in REST Service

http://localhost:8080/restful/resources/helloworld... it’s good to take a look how the URL is composed because when we start creating the service, you will see how the various parts of the URL—namely, the context root restful, the mapping of the RESTful resource container resources, and the name of the service itself—all manifest themselves in either the code or the XML configuration files.

http://www.theserverside.com/tip/RESTful-Web-services-made-easy