Eric Berry wrote:
> Mark, Chuck,
> Thank you both very much for the detailed explanations. I can certainly
> see how this would definitely speed development along, and how - in most
> cases - the context.xml is unnecessary. I myself, have rarely used them
> unless as Mark mentioned, I needed sp
Mark, Chuck,
Thank you both very much for the detailed explanations. I can certainly
see how this would definitely speed development along, and how - in most
cases - the context.xml is unnecessary. I myself, have rarely used them
unless as Mark mentioned, I needed specific context parameters.
> From: Eric Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5. META-INF/context.xml ignored when
> deploying as war.
(Just expanding a little on what Mark gave you.)
> Why recommend the use of the context.xml if it really isn't used?
It is used - Tomcat copied the cont
Eric Berry wrote:
> Ok cool. Thank you very much for clearing that up for me. The first time I
> deployed the war, there wouldn't have been a context in any of the 3
> locations mentioned above. As you said, it would have copied the context.xml
> file from the war into the 3rd location as .xml cor
> That isn't quite how it works.
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml
> provides global defaults which can be overridden at the host level by:
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile
> which in turn can be overridden at the context level by:
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginen
Eric Berry wrote:
> Mark, thanks for the reply.
>
> You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this
>> from and I'll see if it can be made clearer.
>
>
>>From my understanding of the the order of precedence.
>
> [quote]
>
> *Context* elements may be explicitly defined:
Mark, thanks for the reply.
You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this
> from and I'll see if it can be made clearer.
>From my understanding of the the order of precedence.
[quote]
*Context* elements may be explicitly defined:
- in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/cont
Eric Berry wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to use the manager to deploy a war file creating using Maven
> 2. The war is a snapshot file which contains a META-INF/context.xml file. It
> seems that this file is being ignored when deploying this way and the war
> file-name is being used instead.
>
>
