I am trying to run and debug my webapps with NetBeans 16 and Tomcat 9.0.65 (I am running OpenJDK 11 but targeting JDK 8 on macOS 10.15). Things are working, but I think there should be a better way.
I have a directory ./nbdev with three subdirectories: appA, appB, and apache-tomcat-9.0.65. Tomcat is installed under Services->Servers with debug port 11550. When I run or debug either app, the context.xml files do not copy to apache-tomcat-9.0.65/conf/Catalina/localhost. I cannot run my app until I copy the context file there myself and add the docBase to the Context of each file (as in docBase="/Users/thad/nbdev/appA/target/appA##1.0.6"). When I run the first app create (appA), the context file I copied remains at apache-tomcat-9.0.67/conf/Catalina/localhost/appA.xml However when stop Tomcat and run appB, its context is deleted and must be recopied. I cannot see any difference in their Project Properties (other than General). This occurs on both my home and office Macs. -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 111-13)
