for your base server.xml configuration i would suggest using CVS. it further customizations are needed (for example per client) you can write a command line wrapper over tomcat mbeans, or direct XML manipulation, or use third party install tools which usually have built-in support for the modification of XML files as a part of the build process.
-----Original Message----- From: Ittay Dror [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:34 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: build procedure to configure tomcat files Hi, Getting my application to run requires me to change all sorts of configuration files. Specifically server.xml. In order to install on a preinstalled tomcat, I need to modify this file. In order to simplify this, I want to automate this (so a script will do it, rather than manually). Of course I can copy the file to my cvs, modify it and then overwrite the original file wity my copy (by cp from the installation to tomcat directory). However, this means that if the origianl server.xml changes from the time I copied it (user changes, newer versions of tomcat), they are lost. I was wondering how people are tackeling this. For me, the best thing would be to have a CLI tool where I can tell it to modify the XML by adding nodes inside existing ones (e.g., 'xml_modify add -n Server.GlobalNamingResources -f resource.xml'. where resouce.xml has a definition of a <Resource>). I can use 'patch' of course, but it looks to me it will break easily, and will be tricky to maintain ("grab a server.xml, modify, diff, put the result as server.xml.patch") Thanx, Ittay -- =================================== Ittay Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Application Team Leader, R&D Qlusters Inc. +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
