I'm brand new
to this list, so forgive me if this has been dealt with before. I've
searched the archives, and although this has been brought up before (http://mikal.org/interests/java/tomcat/archive/view?mesg=1003),
I don't think it has been resolved.
I wanted to know the
interest in adding an additional attribute to ContextManager in server.xml to
specify a webapps directory, in much the same way that the work directory can be
specified. This would override the default directory
"${tomcat.home}/webapps" that would otherwise be assumed. This
would help significantly in my project. I know it to be a feature in
at least one other servlet engines (the "war-dir" element in
resin).
I am happy to do the
work and submit a patch, but I wanted to guage the receptiveness of the tomcat
developer community to such a feature before putting in the effort. If no
one has significant objections, I'll try to get this done in the next day or
so. But if there is a better/more canonical way to do this, I'd be happy
to hear it.
I am using tomcat
3.2. I haven't done any research to know if this is a feature in tomcat
4.0.
Many
thanks,
-Scott
