Comments on: Tomcat ROOT.war deployment http://www.andrew-eells.com/2009/03/21/tomcat-root-war/ Java, Oracle, Web comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew Eells http://www.andrew-eells.com/2009/03/21/tomcat-root-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Andrew Eells Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:04:51 +0000 http://www.andrew-eells.com/?p=190#comment-4 Depends what application container you are using to some extent. Here are Apache's suggestions for <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html" rel="nofollow">The Tomcat Context Container</a>. Using Tomcat 5.5 we have an application context xml file: <Context docBase="@DEPLOY_FILE@">     <ResourceLink global="blah" name="blah" type="blah"/> </Context> that is moved to <tomcat_install>/conf/Catalina/<hostname>/ROOT.xml as part of the deploy process. Depends what application container you are using to some extent. Here are Apache’s suggestions for The Tomcat Context Container.

Using Tomcat 5.5 we have an application context xml file:

<Context docBase=”@DEPLOY_FILE@”>
    <ResourceLink global=”blah” name=”blah” type=”blah”/>
</Context>

that is moved to /conf/Catalina//ROOT.xml as part of the deploy process.

]]> By: kspratling http://www.andrew-eells.com/2009/03/21/tomcat-root-war/comment-page-1/#comment-3 kspratling Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:01:19 +0000 http://www.andrew-eells.com/?p=190#comment-3 Thanks for the article...it's very helpful. I have a question about the following line: <Context docBase="//.war" /> Where should I put this? In the server.xml? Thanks for the article…it’s very helpful. I have a question about the following line:

<Context docBase=”//.war” />

Where should I put this? In the server.xml?

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