Brice
I may have got you wrong, and I cannot offer any solutions specific to your
questions (because I am in a hurry!) but here is how I sorted things out for
myself recently, using what I know as the Tomcat 'manager' tasks, but which
I assume are the same as what you refer to as the 'catalina-ant' tasks.
Basically, with my local system - used for development - I have exploded WAR
files and their respective context files are *copied* from my project folder
to the conf/Catalina/localhost directory.
I use the Tomcat 'manager' tasks to STOP the application. Then I use a
combination of ant 'sync' and 'copy' tasks to update my WAR file (and its
context) from my project folder. Then I use the manager START task to get
the app running again.
For my deployed stuff - on a separate server - I only use packed WAR files,
so my ant task is simple:
- undeploy
- copy new WAR file to webapps directory
- deploy
And that seems to automatically take care of updating the application's
context file, which makes sense.
HTH
Harry Mantheakis
London, UK
> I was reading up on the context.xml file yesterday in the Tomcat-5.0
> documentation on the main Jakarta Tomcat site and came across the
> information that the context.xml file can be placed in
> conf/Catalina/localhost -OR- it can be placed in the META-INF directory
> of your web-app.
>
> Now, when I use the catalina-ant deploy task, with the localWar
> attribute pointing to "file:///${basedir}" -- where ${basedir} is the
> directory containing the exploded WAR for my project -- it doesn't seem
> to pick up that context.xml file that I've placed in the META-INF
> directory (leaving out the config attribute to explicitly point it to
> that file). I'm leaving out the config attribute, because it appears
> that the deploy task then copies the XML file provided to the
> conf/Catalina/localhost directory ... and I want to be able to drive the
> web-app from the context.xml file provided in the META-INF directory (so
> when I edit the context.xml file in META-INF, the application will
> reload (hot)) - to get this same effect with the context placed in
> conf/Catalina/localhost, I'd have to remove and re-install the context
> (since that file lives outside of the deployment directory, at that point).
>
> I guess I'm getting caught up in the fact that the catalina-ant tasks
> seem to arbitrarily limit what can be done with deploying projects to
> Tomcat ... versus what Tomcat's true abilities are.
>
> Any clarity here would be appreciated!!
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