I pushed a snapshot of our new tomcat build earlier today and just
committed the server.xml changes to trunk. With a little luck I won't
have made the build significantly more broken.
thanks
david jencks
On Jun 12, 2009, at 11:21 AM, David Jencks wrote:
On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Kevan Miller wrote:
On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:00 AM, David Jencks wrote:
On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
On Jun 2, 2009, at 6:46 PM, David Jencks wrote:
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I played with something like this on the plane today..... it
might not take more that a couple days to get _something_
working that interprets server.xml files. It turns out there's
no schema for tomcat configurations so it may be an adventure
interpreting the same files they do.
We might be able to copy their digester configuration but
replace defaults with geronimo classes instead of tomcat
classes. I find digester grammar so hard to understand however
that I started by generating a schema from a sample file and
modifying it to fit the digeter rules.
My current idea is to have a TomcatServerGBean that has a
server.xml as an attribute, which it reads into a jaxb tree,
which we call a "construct(ClassLoader cl)" method on to set up
the tomcat objects. If this works it should be fairly easy....
no idea if it will actually work though.
Next step would be a builder that, given a server.xml, sets up
such a gbean.
Sounds interesting. IIUC, this embedded Tomcat instance replaces
our current embedded Tomcat. It improves our ability to configure
this instance -- it's native Tomcat config.
Are you thinking about all configuration files? E.g. WEB-INF/
context.xml, conf/context.xml? There are catalina.policy,
catalina.properties, tomcat-users.xml, also. Hmm. gets a little
messier...
I have enough working now so I can run the admin console on a
server set up this way. I haven't looked at any files other than
server.xml yet. Some like tomcat-users.xml are for a security
realm we aren't going to use or, probably, support using. Not
sure about the others.
Cool. Can you point me to the code?
I'm hoping to get it checked in today. I have a bunch of stuff
intertwined locally so this involves figuring out where to put our
tomcat build in svn and pushing a snapshot for it first. I still
don't have a good idea where in svn to put builds of other
projects. I guess I'll use "external" and we can move it if anyone
has a better idea.
thanks
david jencks
--kevan
