Re: Can servlets be mapped to contexts other than webapps directory name?

[Klaus Sonnenleiter]

I think you'll need to put the servlet into the classpath and make sure that Tomcat cannot find it in the context (it will always look in the context path first). I'm not sure about the various versions and whether or not there are any differences, but it definitely works with 4.0-b3.

Klaus Sonnenleiter


At 08:49 AM 5/11/2001 -0400, Hawkins, Keith (Keith) wrote:

Is it possible for a servlet to serve a URL with a context name different than the webapps directory name that it is in?

For example,  can I have a servlet handle requests for http://SomeHost/SomeContext  yet place the servlet code in<TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/ADifferentDirectory

What I am really after is the ability for servlets deployed in two separate webapps directories to share portions of the same context.

So that  requests to  http://SameHost/SameContext/ItemA  are handled by a servlet deployed in webapps/ServletA   while requests to http://SameHost/SameContext/ItemB are handled by servlet deployed in  webapps/SevletB

Is this possible?

It does not seem so reading the chapter 10 of the ServletSpecification Version 2.2  but I  wanted to make sure I was not misreading it.

Thanks,
Keith