Re: Problem with JNDI environment entry resources

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
being the only change). I'm hesitant to raise a bug for fear of being flamed again! Thanks, Paul. 2008/9/3 Caldarale, Charles R [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Paul Pepper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with JNDI environment entry resources Can anyone suggest what I might have missed

Re: Problem with JNDI environment entry resources

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
Martin, Thanks for the suggestion, though I think there may have been some misunderstanding. I'm attempting to access a simple java.lang.String, not a DataSource. Environment/ elements are used to place String resources in an application's environment, not Resource/ elements, AFAIK. Paul.

Re: User Directories and context.xml?

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
Tim, The META-INF/context.xml should be placed within your application's docBase. I suspect that is likely to be ~/public_html/myapp/META-INF, where ~/public_html/ is the appBase for the localhost (as you've described it) and ~/public_html/myapp is the docBase of your application. Paul.

Re: Problem with JNDI environment entry resources

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
I'll have to check the docs again. However, docBase is only legal when the webapp is stored outside of the Host appBase directory. Otherwise, you risk ending up with double deployment. I don't see docBase described that way in the docs - at this moment I'm referring to

Re: Problem with JNDI environment entry resources

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
2008/9/3 David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's an implicit association based on the context path. myWebApp.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost is implicitly associated with the webapp myWebApp in the webapps directory, whether it be as a .war or expanded folder. Yes, I agree that the docs read

Problems with Context/

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
A discussion regarding the use of the Context/ element, within server.xml and $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/, grew from a thread with subject Problem with JNDI environment entry resources: http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-userm=122045686313688w=2 In that thread the question seemed to boil

Re: User Directories and context.xml?

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Pepper
className=org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig directoryName=public_html homeBase=/home userClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase / set up. Thanks again - this list is very helpful! -Tim Paul Pepper wrote: Tim, The META-INF

Problem with JNDI environment entry resources

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Pepper
Tomcat 6.0.18 java version 1.6.0_06 (sun-java6-jdk on Ubuntu 8.04 i386) I'm attempting to create environment entry resources, of type java.lang.String, within conf/server.xml and access them from web applications using JNDI. I've created a bare-bones test web app, jndistring, with the following