On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Schultz<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >On 8/31/2009 6:19 PM, Robert Whane wrote: >> Okay, it's optional, so I don't HAVE to use, but if I DO use it, what >> possible advantage does it have? > > Adherence to the Servlet Specification?
Which is what I indeed suspected what might be a possible function, but as Martin Gainty has found in Tomcat's source, Tomcat absolutely does not look at the resource-ref element. There's a digester rule defined for it, but that's it. So even if you make a typo in any of the data provided in the resource-ref element, Tomcat won't warn you about it. Maybe the documentation should very clearly state this, i.e. "Note: the resource-ref element is totally ignored by Tomcat. You can provide this element to be compatible with other servlet containers that adhere strictly to the Servlet spec(*) Also note that because Tomcat totally and utterly ignores the element, any faulty data provided by you won't be detected by Tomcat. In other words, your application may run perfectly on Tomcat, but fail on this other servlet container since the errors you made were never detected by Tomcat". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
