https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45979
Summary: META-INF/context.xml does not replace
conf/Catalina//[hostname]/ [appname].xml when war
deployed
Product: Tomcat 5
Version: 5.5.25
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Catalina
AssignedTo: dev@tomcat.apache.org
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just discovered that if you update your META-INF/context.xml, create a war
file, put it into a stopped tomcat container, and delete the old expanded war
file contents - when tomcat starts - it does not replace the
Catalina/[hostname]/[appname].xml file when the war file is deployed. It
remains the file from the previous (now replaced) war file.
I see this has come up before, and it was commented that that was a design
decision. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32284#c8
I think that is wrong.
Now, rather than having a self-contained application - if I need to specify
something in the context.xml file - I can't just put it there, and allow my
installer programs to just put the war file in the correct place in tomcat.
Now, my installer utilities must be smart enough to go find and delete the
Catalina/[hostname]/[appname].xml file every single time I make an update.
Why should the onus be on my installers to do that job? I didn't even ask
tomcat to put that file there in the first place. I put it in
META-INF/context.xml. Tomcat copied it to the conf subfolder. And now Tomcat
neglects to copy the updated file there.
Additionally, the documentation
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html for this
context.xml feature makes no mention of the fact that it simply copies the file
once (and only once - never noting future changes) into the server conf folder.
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