I have an applicaiton which is using a connection pool provided by Tomcat.
In order to allow the application to reference the connection pool, I
created a Context configuration file for the application and placed it in
the "webapps" directory.  The application is called SHAREDSETUP, and I
placed two files in the webapps directory ... SHAREDSETUP.WAR and
SHAREDSETUP.XML.  When I start Tomcat, the WAR file is not automatically
expanded and the application is not started because the "/sharedsetup"
directory does not exist.

If I delete the SHAREDSETUP.XML file, Tomcat automatically explodes the WAR
file and creates the "/sharedsetup" directory.  The application is started
fine, however the application is unable to reference the database
connection.  I need the connection pool, therefore this is not an option. 

If I manually explode the WAR file, the application is started successfully
and everything works fine.  However, I was hoping to not have to do this.  I
have to provide the WAR file to an external group who will be responsible
for deploying the application.  I wanted to make the deployment procedure as
simple as possible.

How do I get Tomcat to automatically explode a WAR file if I need to use a
Context configuratioin XML file?

Thanks,
Kirk




contents of "sharedsetup.xml"
=====================================================
<Context docBase="sharedsetup" cookies="true" path="/sharedsetup"
className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" crossContext="false"
reloadable="false"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
useNaming="true" debug="0" swallowOutput="false" privileged="false"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper">
        <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" debug="9"
verbosity="1" prefix="localhost_sharedsetup_log." directory="logs"
timestamp="true" suffix=".txt"/>
        <ResourceLink name="jdbc/sharedsetup/default"
global="jdbc/sharedsetup/test"/>
        <ResourceLink name="jdbc/sharedsetup/dev"
global="jdbc/sharedsetup/dev"/>
        <ResourceLink name="jdbc/sharedsetup/test"
global="jdbc/sharedsetup/test"/>
</Context>

failure logged when application attempts to start
=====================================================
2003-11-07 11:00:46 StandardContext[/sharedsetup]: Resources start failed:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base ..\webapps\sharedsetup
does not exist or is not a readable directory
        at
org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:19
3)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java
:3342)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3472)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:8
21)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.
java:700)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at
org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:252)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276)
        at
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1064)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc
her.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.j
ava:385)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:442
)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:399)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:718)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:358)
        at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor
t.java:166)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1196)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2190)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
2003-11-07 11:00:46 StandardContext[/sharedsetup]: Context startup failed
due to previous errors



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