Two webapps using shared jar - ClassLoader problem

Yeah, yeah, I know it's obvious, but i thought i might be smarter. I am not:

Charles R Caldarale Writes:

“[When using Tomcat,] classes from different webapps cannot access each other - no ifs, ands, or buts. Anything that is to be accessed from more than one webapp must be put in a common location [such as tomcat/shared].”

See:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg30896.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html