Re: Needed more support for catalina.base in Bootstrap

[Jean-Francois Arcand]

In Tomcat 5, you can customize the location of the common/lib, endorsed, 
etc.  Just take a look at $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.properties. 
Double check that to see if you can do what you want :-)

-- Jeanfrancois

Rodrigo Ruiz wrote:

Thanks for your responses, I will follow your suggestions :-)

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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: Needed more support for catalina.base in Bootstrap
 

Howdy,
What Steve said is right on target.  Your patch is not likely to make it
into the tomcat code base ;)
A couple of other pointers, however:
- Patches are always welcome -- so thanks for contributing ;)
- Don't attach them to messages: open a bugzilla enhancement request and
attach your patch, or better yet, a diff file from current sources to
your patch, in the bugzilla issue.
- You may wish to discuss the need for and intent of your patch on the
dev list before writing the patch itself.
- If you intend to contribute more, which I hope is the case, please
read the guidelines for getting involved with jakarta:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
   

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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:19 AM
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Subject: Re: Needed more support for catalina.base in Bootstrap
     

From: Rodrigo Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
       

Recently I have been trying to install and configure an OGSA server
(www.globus.org) deployed over a Tomcat container. The problem I have
       

is
   

that it requires a lot of Tomcat customization: additional connectors
       

in
   

the
     

server.conf, additional jars in the common/lib, common/endorsed and
server/lib directories, conf/web.xml modifications, and so.
In order to keep track of these changes, I decided to use a shared
       

Tomcat
   

installation, and do all the dirty business in a separated Tomcat
       

instance,
     

pointing CATALINA_BASE to it. Doing this I noticed that there was no
       

place
     

for putting my common/lib and server/lib jars.
       

This sounds backwards.  When using separate CATALINA_HOME and
CATALINA_BASE locations,
CATALINA_HOME -

the "central" location.  Classes used by tomcat (server and common
respositories) are taken from this location.  You'll also use the bin
directory for this location.
CATALINA_BASE -

the "lightweight" installations.  These contain web applications,
their own logs, own configuration files, and make use of their own
"shared" class repositories.  If you think about it, this makes
sense: separate CATALINA_BASEs can have different web applications,
so the set of web application library depencies can vary from one
CATALINA_BASE to the next.
     

Digging in the source code, I found that CATALINA_BASE is not used at
       

all
   

when building the common and catalina class loaders.
       

That's correct.  CATALINA_BASE uses the shared class loader, and
CATALINA_HOME uses common and server.
--
Steve
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