> Having it under WEB-INF is much more logical. I think that the user <emphasis>*_MUST_*</emphasis> know where his data is physically stored. The current situation where Xindice automatically create the database is IMO not a good decision. Sure it's nice but it's confusing.
If you automatically store the db in WEB-INF I can already hear desperate users who lost their database when they ugraded their Tomcat installation. Ok I don't need the old version, let's 'rm -rf' it! What I propose is to force the user to manually unpack xindice.war and modify the system.xml file to point to another directory. Otherwise the Xindice would not start. The disadvantage is really small (you only install Xindice once or twice a year (hopefully) and you will have a really detailed howto) comparing to the nightmare if you happen to loose your data. -Vladimir -- Vladimir R. Bossicard Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
