Re: embedded catalina + war files

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Roberto Leong wrote: hi can someone please save me a couple days of hacking embedded catalina and teach me what to do when deploying a new war file on runtime? my guess is that i have to create a new context but i don´t see any methods on EmbeddedManager to add a new context to an existing engine/host (there are no methods to retrieve these, only to remove/create) thanksRoberto Leong Isn't creating a new context what you want to do?  If you are using the EmbeddedManager class (because you're in a JMX managed environment), you presumably have a "host" object already -- to deploy a new WAR you would unpack the WAR to a directory structure and execute:     EmbeddedManager manager = ...; // Your EmbeddedManager object     Host host = ...; // Host object you want to add this context to     String contextPath = ...; // Desired context path     String docBase = ...;    // Pathname to unpacked directory     Context context = embeddedManager.createContext(contextPath, docBase);     ... customize context properties as needed ...     host.addChild(context); If you want to replace an existing webapp, you have to remove the old context first, then add a new one on the same context path following the instructions above. If you are using the Embedded class directly, the procedure is virtually identical -- just call createContext() and the other creation/removal calls on the Embedded class instance instead.  The "main()" method in org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded offers an example of the kinds of things you can do here. Craig McClanahan NOTE:  In the future it will be possible to run a webapp directly out of a WAR, but that is not currently supported.