On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote:
> > From: Anand HS [mailto:anan...@gmail.com] > > Subject: Tomcat cleaning up work folder by itself > > > > 1. I have a exploded war file inside a folder abc-web and my > > context.xml points to this folder as docBase. > > Where is your context.xml file located? The docBase attribute is normally > not allowed. > >> My context is located under <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/Catalina/abc-web/ROOT.xml The context.xml is untouched and is the same as what comes with the distribution. > > > 3. abc-ejb.jar has a few configuration files internally like > > config.properties, app-config.properties. > > How are those files referenced by your code? If you're using file system > paths, you're asking for trouble, since those are never guaranteed to work > in a servlet environment. You should be using either > Classloader.getResourceAsStream() or ServletContext.getResourceAsStream(). > > >> Yes. I Made sure the resources are referenced through ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream() > > When i start the server, the contents of abc-ejb.jar are exploded into > > <TOMCAT_HOME>\work\_\loader. > > That's not the right place; the work\_ directory is for the default webapp, > and yours appears to be named abc-web. If you want yours to be the default > webapp, it should be named ROOT (case-sensitive, even on Windows). > > >> Pardon my incomplete information. Since my application has Root context , I think thats the correct folder into which the resources are unzipped. > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
