--- QM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:57:49AM -0700, Woodchuck wrote: > : under the <web-app> section of the web.xml file, can we arbitrarily > : reference other xml files? > : that is, if i put all my <servlet> tags in one file > (my_servlets.xml) > : and all my <servlet-mapping> tags in another file > (my_mappings.xml), is > : it possible to reference these from the web.xml file (and not upset > : tomcat in doing so)? > > Yes and no: you can call external entity references (which, in turn, > point to files) from your web.xml; but as there is no guarantee of > what > is a webapp's "current directory" you'd have to hardcode those paths. > That would make your app less portable between containers and perhaps > even different Tomcat revs. > > You could merge your files of <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> tags at > build time. For example, I use the Ant tasks <loadfile> and <copy> + > <filter>. If you're interested, I'll post that in detail.
actually i'm using Ant too. i'm pre-compiling using the <jspc> task and it generates a file containing <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> tags. that's exactly what i need to do really, is to merge this file with my web.xml file. if you can show me how you're doing it that would be great, thanks! i didn't look into doing this right away because i thought it would be simpler to just have web.xml point to this file... :p > > > : also, i was experimenting and discovered i could place <servlet> > tags > : and <servlet-mapping> tags in different orders (within <web-app> > : section) and it still works! > > What servlet spec do you specify in your web.xml? > IIRC 2.4's schema permits a more logical order, such as > > <servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > > -but don't quote me on that, as I don't have the spec in front of me > right now. my web.xml header is this: <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd";> i didn't alternate <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> though. i kept the 'group' integrity so all the <servlet> tags were together first, then came all the <servlet-mapping> tags. what i did mix up though, was putting this chunk in various places within the <web-app> tag. for example i put this chunk as the very last 'section' before </web-app>, then i tried putting this chunk right in-between two <taglib> definitions. in both cases, when tomcat 'picked up' these changes it caused various parsing-related errors on the console, however my application still worked *seemingly* without any problems. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
