ok thank you for the quick answer sorry to have missed it on the website
- Romain 2012/5/21 Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> > 2012/5/21 Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > how does tomcat manage context.xml at startup? > > > > from what i saw it uses org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.DeployWar > > but in org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig#deployWAR it reads the > > context.xml file before overriding it with contextname info which ignores > > the context.xml file: > > > > context.setName(cn.getName()); > > context.setPath(cn.getPath()); > > context.setWebappVersion(cn.getVersion()); > > context.setDocBase(cn.getBaseName() + ".war"); > > > > > > did i miss sthg or is it a bug? > > > > 1. There are several context.xml files (App's context.xml, Host's > "context.xml.default" file, common conf/context.xml). See Context in > config. reference for details. > > 2. App's context.xml is read twice, with different configuration of > Digester. > > When it is read by the second time, the name etc. are ignored. > > That relates with the following documented feature: You cannot specify > path attribute on Context in app's own context.xml, because it is > already known a-priori from the name and location of the context file > itself. > > The name and version are calculated from path. > > The same with docBase. > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
