I'm modifying out custom update handler and the modifications needs access to a third party jar (microsoft azure).
For what it's worth, I use mvn as my build / packaging tool. During runtime, I've been encountering class not found errors in the plugin related to the azure library. 1. Is there something / some special place to place the azure jars so the PLUGIN can access the azure classes? I tried putting the azure jar in the tomcat/lib , WEB_INF/lib and also beside the plugin jar in the updatehandler/lib directory . Just to be clear, the update handler itself works fine. It's just the enhancements to support azure that result in class not found errors 2. I managed to make things work by including all dependencies but that has bloated the plugin size significantly to over 70 MB. Is this the only way? See an example of this approach at https://leifproblems.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/loading-a-solr-plugin-with-all-maven-dependencies/
