While I didn't get any suggestions or feedback on my original question, I believe I've found a solution. Now I just need to run it by the group to see if it's "Kosher."
James Bucanek wrote on Sunday, April 11, 2004: > <!-- Virtual host: www.hotelmidnight.net --> > <!-- (jlb 11-April-2004) Added virtual host --> > <Host name="www.hotelmidnight.net" debug="0" appBase="/Users/darkthirty/Sites" > unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true"> > > <!-- Context for the top-level web application --> > <Context path="" docBase="." debug="99" reloadable="true"/> > > </Host> <clip> > <web-app> > <display-name>darkthirty</display-name> > <description>darkthirty.net artwork application</description> > > <!-- Global parameters for this web application --> > <context-param> > <param-name>test</param-name> > <param-value>Some Value</param-value> > </context-param> > </web-app> The basic problem with this arrangement is that my JSP pages ran in the context of the 'jsp' <servlet> that's defined in ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml for the default <Host>, not the Context that I defined in my web-app that I want to run in my virtual <Host>. So, it occurred to me that I could create may own instance of the JSP engine as my <Servlet>. Now that I have a <Servlet> to reference, I can then map all of the *.jsp files in my virtual host to that: <web-app> <display-name>darkthirty</display-name> <description>darkthirty.net artwork application</description> <!-- Global parameters available to all web applications --> <context-param> <param-name>test</param-name> <param-value>Some Value</param-value> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>jsp2</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>logVerbosityLevel</param-name> <param-value>INFORMATION</param-value> </init-param> </servlet> <!-- The mapping for the JSP servlet --> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>jsp2</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> This seems to work just great. The Manager sees my application (by name), and all of the context parameters appear in my JSP pages. As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anything really "bad" about this solution. Except that I end up with a new instance of the JspServlet for each virtual host, which is probably a tolerable amount of overhead. My question is this: Is this the "right" way to accomplish this? ______________________________________________________ James Bucanek <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]