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Nick Lloyd commented on MTOMCAT-189:
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Let me better explain the current way my project team deploys our servlets and
configuration:
We have several Spring-based servlets running in different tomcat containers
across several different environments. We keep a single configuration file
holding any environment-specific configuration data (ex. database connection
parameters, JMS URLs). This configuration file we make accessible to servlets
through the classpath so that in the Spring XML we reference the file as
"classpath:env.properties". We extend the tomcat classpath through a setenv.sh
script packaged by a maven assembly into tomcat bundle which we actually deploy
across these environments.
While each developer on the team can package up a local environment configured
tomcat bundle, I put in some time back the tomcat-maven-plugin to allow for
running individual servlets through maven for faster testing (also fancy
integration testing and super easy debugging through eclipse). This worked
fine before we had a common env.properties file when each servlet had its own
env.properties packaged in the war... however this meant that we had a distinct
war file for each environment we deployed to. Not an ideal situation.
I patched tomcat-maven-plugin version 1.2 to allow equivalent functionality to
setenv.sh or any other mechanism not relying on dependencies to add arbitrary
paths to the classpath for the embedded tomcat instance. I shared the patch
with this project back then and the changes were incorporated in version 2.0,
into the tomcat6-maven-plugin though only to the "run" goal. This is an update
to that.
I can provide one or more integration tests around this functionality if that
would make you more comfortable.
> additionalClassesDirs parameter handling expanded to include run and run-war
> goals
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> Key: MTOMCAT-189
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MTOMCAT-189
> Project: Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Nick Lloyd
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.1
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> I contributed the original patch to add the functionality to add additional
> directories to the classpath for the run goal. This patch expands on that,
> adding the functionality to both run and run-war goals in the tomcat6 and
> tomcat7 plugin artifacts.
> Please review and incorporate as you see fit. My organization is using this
> internally.
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