Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-06 Thread Mark Thomas
Eric Berry wrote: Mark, Chuck, Thank you both very much for the detailed explanations. I can certainly see how this would definitely speed development along, and how - in most cases - the context.xml is unnecessary. I myself, have rarely used them unless as Mark mentioned, I needed

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Thomas
Eric Berry wrote: Ok cool. Thank you very much for clearing that up for me. The first time I deployed the war, there wouldn't have been a context in any of the 3 locations mentioned above. As you said, it would have copied the context.xml file from the war into the 3rd location as

RE: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-05 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Eric Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war. (Just expanding a little on what Mark gave you.) Why recommend the use of the context.xml if it really isn't used? It is used - Tomcat copied the context.xml file from

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-05 Thread Eric Berry
Mark, Chuck, Thank you both very much for the detailed explanations. I can certainly see how this would definitely speed development along, and how - in most cases - the context.xml is unnecessary. I myself, have rarely used them unless as Mark mentioned, I needed specific context parameters.

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Thomas
Eric Berry wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use the manager to deploy a war file creating using Maven 2. The war is a snapshot file which contains a META-INF/context.xml file. It seems that this file is being ignored when deploying this way and the war file-name is being used instead. I

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-04 Thread Eric Berry
Mark, thanks for the reply. You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this from and I'll see if it can be made clearer. From my understanding of the the order of precedence. [quote] *Context* elements may be explicitly defined: - in the

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Thomas
Eric Berry wrote: Mark, thanks for the reply. You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this from and I'll see if it can be made clearer. From my understanding of the the order of precedence. [quote] *Context* elements may be explicitly defined: - in

Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when deploying as war.

2008-09-04 Thread Eric Berry
That isn't quite how it works. $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml provides global defaults which can be overridden at the host level by: $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile which in turn can be overridden at the context level by: