Will JNDI help you in any way? I don't have a solution for ya:), but thought this would be a very good counter-arguement against the idea that .war is the best deployment practise in Tomcat.
-Yan -----Original Message----- From: Johansen, Roar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:06 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: JSP forwarding outside of Context I supervise development of a web-app, currently deployed on Jrun, but I also want to deploy it on other appservers, among those tomcat. I want to distribute the app as a .war file (which we do), but with JSPs outside the .war file. This because we want to be able to do fixes, and not least to add JSPs (according to that being made possible by the servlet we direct all requsts to, but that's a long story), without having to redeploy the entire .war file. Thing is, since we reside on the context root "/", anything below the context root is in the .war file. JRun4 supports the concept of "virtual mapping", by which means resources within the context may be mapped to a different physical location, e.g. <virtual-mapping> <resource-path>/pages</resource-path> <system-path>/wherever/on/the/harddisk/pages</system-path> </virtual-mapping> This maps the context relative path of /pages to the physical location in <system-path>. This allows for "relocation" of resources to outside of a .war file distribution. If I have managed to make myself clear here, is there any way I could do something similar in tomcat? TIA, Roar --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
