Hello, I am looking into making webapp-config Java-aware. While there are quite a few things that would need to happen from both the w-c and Java ends, it definitely seems plausible.
The first step is to develop a directory structure for Java webapps that supports virtual hosts and plays nice with GLEP 11. All four J2EE/servlet engines currently in Portage (tomcat, jetty, resin, and jboss) implement this in their own way: - tomcat stores webapps in /var/lib/tomcat-5/{vhost}/webapps. There is one "default" vhost. - jetty stores webapps in /opt/jetty/webapps. There is currently no vhost hierarchy, although I believe it should be easy to create one under /opt/jetty/webapps/{vhost} - resin stores webapps in /opt/resin/webapps. There is currently no vhost hierarchy, although I believe it should be easy to create one under /opt/resin/webapps/{vhost} - jboss is less straightforward. It appears that webapps go into /var/lib/jboss/{all,default,minimal}, but I'm not sure what the difference between those three directories is or how vhosts are handled. I propose to add a Java-specific directory under /var/www/{vhost}, such as /var/www/localhost/java (perhaps there is a better name than java?). This directory could be symlinked from the tomcat/jetty/resin/jboss locations, much like what tomcat already does. This would have the benefit of keeping everything related to one vhost (statis HTML, servlets, CGI scripts, etc) in one location. Comments and suggestions (esp. from Java folks) are welcome. I would particularly like to figure out what to do with jboss. -- Renat Lumpau all things web-apps GPG key id #C6A838DA on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 04AF B5EE 17CB 1000 DDA5 D3FC 1338 ADC2 C6A8 38DA
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