Tomcat 7 embedded doesn't need a war file to be unpacked. I have a Spring
based application packaged in war and it works.
Do you really use Tomcat embedded jars on the classpath or may be from
Tomcat installation?
2014/1/22 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov>
> Thanks for the example Valery. Even with your approach, I'm finding that
> unless I create a directory "webapps" in the directory from which I run the
> program, I get this exception:
>
> java.io.IOException: Application base [{1}] for host [/tmp/./webapps] does
> not exist or is not a directory.
>
> It seems to me that the WAR is still needing to be unpacked prior to
> running.
>
> --john
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > The code below works fine on my Win 7 PC
> >
> > final Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat();
> > tomcat.setPort(9191);
> > //File baseDir = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));
> > File baseDir = new File(".");
> > tomcat.addContext("", baseDir.getAbsolutePath());
> > tomcat.addWebapp("/WebApplication2",
> >
> "D:\\VnsTestApps\\Nb74Jetty\\WebApplication2\\dist\\WebApplication2.war");
> >
> > tomcat.start();
> > tomcat.getServer().await();
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014/1/22 Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com>
> >
> > > By the way it's not a suggestion it's a signature of the addWebApp
> > > method.
> > > I'll try to find my working code and send it.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2014/1/22 Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > >> Try:
> > >>
> > >> File baseDir = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));
> > >> tomcat.addContext("", baseDir.getAbsolutePath());
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 2014/1/22 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov>
> > >>
> > >>> Thanks for the suggestion Valery, but swapping the arguments doesn't
> > >>> work.
> > >>>
> > >>> --john
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Valery Shyshkin <
> > vns.shysh...@gmail.com
> > >>> >wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> > May be tomcat.addWebapp(contextName,pathToWarFile) instead of
> > >>> > tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName) will help yoo.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > 2014/1/21 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <
> john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov
> > >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > > Hello All,
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > I'm trying to create a very basic embeded tomcat 7 application to
> > >>> host a
> > >>> > > packed WAR file. My code looks like:
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat()
> > >>> > > tomcat.setPort(port)
> > >>> > > tomcat.setBaseDir(".")
> > >>> > > tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName)
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > It seems to work, but I'm getting an exception on startup
> > complaining
> > >>> > about
> > >>> > > the missing webapps directory:
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/quickstart]
> > >>> > > java.io.IOException: Application base [{1}] for host
> > >>> > > [/private/tmp/./webapps] does not exist or is not a directory.
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > Can someone please direct me to a better way to do this? Is
> > >>> > > Tomcat#addWebapp not appropriate if hosting a packed WAR file?
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > Thanks!
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > --john
> > >>> > >
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
