It looks good to me. The situation it covers is not supposed to be the main usual case obviously (never been a fan of the "external shared jar" use case, but I also got the comments "I have 1000 webapps" in the past, so ...) but it's a nice improvement. Let's see if there are any final objections to this.

It looks good to me. The situation it covers is not supposed to be the main usual case obviously (never been a fan of the "external shared jar" use case, but I also got the comments "I have 1000 webapps" in the past, so ...) but it's a nice improvement. Let's see if there are any final objections to this.

Thank you, @rmaucher!

Hi @rmaucher, just circling back on this to see if it can be merged and included in the next release - or would you rather wait a bit longer? Thank you!

LGTM. I'll merge, run the TCKs tests and back-port assuming there are no issues.