title: Instantiating a tomcat WEB-INF\class\myclass from tomcat lib using classloader
body: <p>I am trying to load a class present in a war file in tomcat from a class in a jar in tomcat lib. I am doing this using Class.forname("myclass") but the application is throwing class not found exception. i guess this is because the webapp will have its own class loader. can someone suggest how to fix this</p>