On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Jakub 1983 wrote: > When is it useful to define context.xml in some other place than at > /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files ? > > When do you usually do it ? > Is it frequently used ? > I am not asking about theoretical possibilities, but how are they used in > practical scenarios.
I almost *always* write a context descriptor to place in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/$HOSTNAME/$CONTEXTNAME.xml, after placing the app. itself somewhere far from the appBase directory so that the descriptor won't be munged by Tomcat during deployment. I am actually a bit puzzled that it's even *possible* to place the context descriptor inside the app. I gather that I am in the minority, in this. But I feel that the app., whether packed or unpacked, should be treated as an opaque object, with deployment configuration data applied from the outside. I think that muddling the concerns of developers and installers is asking for trouble. (I also feel that an app. should be able to function without any configuration at all, at least to the point of telling me what I forgot to configure.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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