-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt,
Matthew Kerle wrote: > Most of the sysadmin's I've worked with really don't like the idea of > having to rip open a war and update some weird config file just to do a > deploy. the alternative is I know all the passwords and build a war for > each target, which is a crap solution. They're all crap solutions when nobody wants to do their job. Either the deployment folks have to do some work (horrors!) or the developers have to (oh, no!). The solution you're looking for is simply not recommended by this crowd. You CAN do this: 1. Set up a GlobalNamingResource and ResourceParams in your server.xml file. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/globalresources.html 2. Use a <ResourceLink> in your <Context> in your META-INF/context.xml file. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html#Resource%20Links Another option is to have a context.xml file /outside/ of the WAR file. This requires alternate configuration -- details can be found in the archives for just about every week since the release of TC 5.5 ('cause someone always asks before searching). > We should just be able to configure a datasource for a particular > context in the target instance, and then forever after all deployments > are database transparent. Am i missing something? The only thing you're missing is that this is no longer recommended procedure, which is why everyone is telling you to do it differently. Feel free to do it your own way, but don't complain when we tell you it's not a recommended / supported configuration. Sure, Tomcat will do it, but if you're having problems, your free tech-support provided by this forum might just refuse to help. > I can't understand why it would be better to target a war file for a > database, than have the configuration live in the instance and the war > file is database-agnostic. makes change migration a *lot* easier. See the option above about using an outside-the-WAR file context.xml configuration file. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxIYt9CaO5/Lv0PARArMNAKCZ/YLaoqADeT3OWZRkFdj0ycku0gCfc/bj M8Tiwu8RsSsOK0b+i9PLjaE= =x7NG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
