My +1 on this...this made things *much* easier and in more complex configurations, its much more accurate.
Jeff David Jencks wrote: > I've been talking with jgenender on IRC a bit about the former getURLFor > method in web modules. This used to be used in the console to provide a > link to deployed web apps and in the startup to display where web apps > are and I think in cl deployer to show where you app ended up. Also for > remote deploy upload servlet. > > We decided that this really makes no sense in any but the simplest > configurations and in more complicated situations (2 connectors) its apt > to be wrong and misleading. So I took out the method. > > The console links to apps still work if everything is running on the > same connector. The startup shows you the context path, and I think the > cl deployer will also. This isn't much less convenient. > > You now configure where the remote deploy upload servlet is with a > Deployer attribute remoteDeployAddress. By default it's localhost:8080 > which provides the additional security of not allowing remote deploy > unless you change it. > > Any comments? Getting the method back will require you to implement it > sensibly for all the tomcat connectors, something neither jeff nor I > know how to do :-) > > thanks > david jencks
