I'm guessing this is a Tomcat 5 thing? I tried the context.xml (in my war's META-INF
directory) thing in Tomcat 4.1.29 and it didn't work, but maybe I need to use Tomcat's
Ant task
for this to work?
Also, it is possible to use Tomcat 5's catalina-ant.jar to deploy to Tomcat 4's
manager app - or
are the tasks and manager app tightly coupled? In other words, are the tasks better
in 5 or both
the tasks and the manager app?
Thanks,
Matt
> The trick is to use the deploy task rather than the install task,
> and include the context.xml (make sure it's named context.xml) in
> the META-INF directory inside the war file. Tomcat will find the
> context file, and add the contents to the server.xml file. Then, use
> redeploy to deploy changes, or undeploy to remove. Once you've got
> that all set up, it works remarkably well.
>
> Andrew
>
> At 04:22 PM 1/21/2004, Matt Raible wrote:
> >Is it possible to use the <install> ant task to deploy to a remote
> >server? I would think so, but it
> >seems that the Manager app of Tomcat tries to load the "context" file on
> >the remote server...
> >
> > <install url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
> > username="${tomcat.username}"
> > password="${tomcat.password}"
> > config="file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.name}.xml"
> > war="jar:file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.war}!/"/>
> >
> >Is there anyway to do this, i.e. packaging the context.xml in the JAR and
> >telling the manager app
> >to get it from there - or can I only deploy to localhost when I have a
> >context.xml involved?
> >
> >On another note, is it possible to put all the ant task definitions in a
> >file that can be referenced
> >when - so all tasks can be declared at once. Cactus does this and it's a
> >handy feature. I've
> >added it to my project by doing the following.
> >
> >1. Created a tomcatTasks.properties file with the following contents:
> >
> >deploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask
> >install=org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask
> >list=org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask
> >reload=org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask
> >remove=org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask
> >resources=org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask
> >roles=org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask
> >start=org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask
> >stop=org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask
> >undeploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask
> >
> >2. Define my tasks using:
> >
> > <taskdef file="${ant-contrib.dir}/tomcatTasks.properties">
> > <classpath>
> > <pathelement path="${tomcat.home}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
> > </classpath>
> > </taskdef>
> >
> >This certainly cuts down on the size of my build.xml file by about 20 lines!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Matt
> >
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