----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Christmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Jacob Kjome'"
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Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:05 PM
Subject: Catalina install (was RE: Re[2]: cruisecontrol vs anthill)
> > From: "Jacob Kjome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Hmmm.... Why not just use the catalina-ant tasks to install the apps
> > > remotely without mucking with tomcat's webapps directory? I use the
> > > following target to install my app:
> > >
> > > <target name="install" depends="compile,manager.init"
> > > description="Install application to servlet container" >
> > > <install
> > > url="${manager.url}"
> > > username="${manager.username}"
> > > password="${manager.password}"
> > > config="${app.ccf}"
> > > path="${app.path}" />
> > > </target>
> > >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > ...does that persist? webapp stuff remains after restarts,
> > which makes it the place to put production stuff
>
> I assume you are describing the following problem, which I wrestled with
> for a while and you talk about in Chapter 7:
>
> The manager <install> task does a hot installation, allowing you to
> install the service without bringing down the web server. But if you
> then *do* bring down the web server, the installed service will not be
> available on a restart, since the <install> task didn't cause anything
> to get written to disk. So, if you want persistence, you need to
> extract files explicitly to the webapps folder (either the war itself,
> or the contents of the war).
yeah, that was me,
> Solution: The Catalina <deploy> task *does* persist the installed
> service. In addition to a "live" installation, it actually modifies
> server.xml configuration entries to point to the location of the file(s)
> that you deploy. So, a hard stop/restart of the service will still
> reference the files that you deployed.
OK. I should look at those again. I had problems with them because you
couldnt uninstall something that wasnt there, and I like my uninstalls,
especially when I have helper threads that need to shut down.
thanks for the info
-steve
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