"Distinct and non-overlapping" context roots

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Benedict
This question is not about Tomcat per se, but it does affect it. It's really about the EE specification in regards to any servlet container. I'd like to get professional opinions on this part of the specification. I am quoting from EE 5.0 (see link below), section 8.3.1, paragraph 3c: The

Re: "Distinct and non-overlapping" context roots

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Benedict
AM, Mark Thomas <m...@homeinbox.net> wrote: > On 22 March 2016 14:46:31 GMT+00:00, Christopher Schultz < > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > >Mark, > > > >On 3/17/16 1:28 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > >> On 17 March 2016 16:06:10 GMT+00:00,

Re: "Distinct and non-overlapping" context roots

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Benedict
future. Cheers, Paul On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 22/03/2016 15:57, Paul Benedict wrote: > > FYI, the EE spec lead and Servlet spec lead consulted. They said I should > > log a ticket against the Servlet specification on this

Re: "Distinct and non-overlapping" context roots

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Benedict
id kerber <dcker...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/22/2016 12:31 PM, Paul Benedict wrote: > >> Mark, I did get some clarification. Thanks for asking. >> >> The EE spec states an "application" may not have overlapping context >> roots. >> I got clarificat

Re: "Distinct and non-overlapping" context roots

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Benedict
By the way, I should mention that with Apache AJP in front of a container, this kind of partial matching stuff gets really interesting. :-) Cheers, Paul On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > Yes, I gave them the same example I used here. They