On Dec 31, 2013 3:15 AM, "Maarten van Hulsentop" <maar...@vanhulsentop.nl> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are using Tomcat to host a number of web applications as a uniform > solution. We trying to implement something that seems to be an odd > requirement, evh it is really a use case for us. > > We would like to define a single [default] error page for all web > applications residing on this Tomcat instance. After some experimentation > and googling around, it seems that there is no clear-cut solution for this. > I see a few options; > > - Let the global conf/web.xml define error pages for all web applications > at once. However these are always relative to the web application context, > and require every web application to pack the error pages again, which is a > duplicate of resources and defeats the DRY principle.
I asked a question similar to this a while back regarding JSF templates. If you pick a location to share this resource among all web apps, then your web apps aren't self contained. The solution is in your build / deploy process. If you want to ignore that advice, Tomcat 8 now has webAppMount, if want to go there. I still haven't had a chance to explore that option. Leo
