You will probably get more traction by posting to commons-dev. While
tomcat-dev still has a couple of commons committers (and, no, I'm not one of
them) that hang out here, its not like the old days :(.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henri Gomez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:29 AM
Subject: Digester and external entities with systemId only : Was: Important
requirement : Re: [next] What's next ?
> I traced TC 5.0 and Digester and suspect what could be the problem
> with external entities when only SYTEM is defined ie :
>
>
> <!ENTITY appset1 SYSTEM "appset1.xml">
> <!ENTITY appset2 SYSTEM "appset2.xml">
>
>
> In Digester.java, at least in the 1.5 release, resolveEntity return
> null if publicId is null even if systemId is set.
>
> To make it works, I just replaced :
>
> --
>
> if (entityURL == null){
> return (null);
>
> by ---
>
> if (entityURL == null){
> if (systemId == null)
> return (null);
> else
> entityURL = systemId;
> }
>
>
> FYI, in resolveEntity we got as parms for previous app1&app2 entities
> declaration:
>
> systemid="jndi:/localhost/myapp/WEB-INF/appset1.xml" and publicid=null
>
> systemid="jndi:/localhost/myapp/WEB-INF/appset2.xml" and publicid=null
>
>
> This hack will solve the resolution of entities presents in WEB-INF.
>
>
>
> Now for entities located outside webapp / WEB-INF.
>
> I know what the spec say about entities outside WAR but there is many
> case where you should serve the SAME application for many customers,
> and where specific settings for each customer MUST exist outside WAR.
>
> Let see my case :
>
> if the entity is defined like this :
>
> <!ENTITY appset1 SYSTEM "file:../etc/appset1.xml">
> <!ENTITY appset2 SYSTEM "file:/var/www/customer1/etc/appset2.xml">
>
> resolveEntity got systemId="file:../etc/appset1.xml" and
> systemId="file:/var/www/customer1/etc/appset2.xml"
>
> So if you have to specify a resource somewhere on your system,
> outside the webapp you should :
>
> 1) Know what the appBase and use .. trick to get it (relative).
> 2) Give an absolute reference on the file system, which is bad
> when you want to use the .war for many customers.
>
>
> Let consider the following layout for an ISP/ASP provider wich
> use the same application for many clients (running their own TC 5).
>
> /var/www/customer1/etc/appset1.xml
> /var/www/customer1/etc/appset2.xml
> /var/www/customer1/var/tomcat5/...
> /var/www/customer1/var/tomcat5/webapps/themainapp.war
>
> /var/www/customer2/etc/appset1.xml
> /var/www/customer2/etc/appset2.xml
> /var/www/customer2/var/tomcat5/...
> /var/www/customer2/var/tomcat5/webapps/themainapp.war
>
> You could use the file:.. trick to go from
> /var/www/customerx/var/tomcat5/, which is the appBase to
> /var/www/customerx/etc, where the customer specific settings
> are located.
>
>
>
> Now consider another layout for an ISP/ASP provider wich
> use the same application for many clients but using a shared TC5.
>
> /var/www/customer1/etc/appset1.xml
> /var/www/customer1/etc/appset2.xml
> /var/www/customer1/webapps/themainapp1.war
> /var/www/customer1/webapps/themainapp1/WEB-INF/...
>
> /var/www/customer2/etc/appset1.xml
> /var/www/customer2/etc/appset2.xml
> /var/www/customer2/webapps/themainapp2.war
> /var/www/customer2/webapps/themainapp1/WEB-INF/...
>
> themainapp1.war and themainapp2.war are copy of or symlink to the
> generic themainapp.war and are decompressed at startup time.
>
> TC 5 is in shared mode, so it live outside customer layout :
>
> /var/tomcat5/...
>
> You couldn't use anymore the file:.. trick to go from /var/tomcat5/,
> which is the appBase to /var/www/customerx/etc, where the customer
> specific settings are located.
>
> The only way to developpers and admins to have it works in both case is
> to set the current directory when web.xml is parsed to WEB-INF/.
>
>
>
>
>
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