Daniel, I have deployed the context.xml to the META-INF location per web application, in the server.xml files I have set the copyXML attribute on the <Host> declaration to true. I do not configure context's anywhere but there.
- Josh On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Josh, > > On 9/29/12 5:41 PM, Josh Gooding wrote: > > It seems that I have run into something that seems a bit strange. > > I have configured 4 separate web applications to each have their > > own context.xml files. I have also configured one of the web > > applications to have a realm. It seems to me, when you configure a > > realm, tomcat forces you to put what ever jdbc driver jar that you > > need, to be put into the $CATALINA_HOME/lib directory? If this is > > not how it works, then I'm missing some piece of configuration > > knowledge. If it is, isn't it a bit counter intuitive in keeping > > each individual applications jars in the context's own WEB-INF/lib > > folder? > > That has been my experience when configuring the Realm from within the > <Context>. IMO, the context should have its resources resolved using > the WebappClassLoader for that context, but there is a bit of a > chicken-in-an-egg situation with reading the context deployment > descriptor which can configure the ClassLoaders. > > > I'm curious about how this is supposed to work. > > This is a situation not covered by the servlet spec, so "how it is > supposed to work" is whatever the Tomcat devs decide, and can change > over time. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlBprLYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBUoACfd7MJv91JugFAXPbg405GgHAf > oEQAoJjV1t4bRcCmj6wUzh2oJAvVZDtf > =Mi5d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
