It's genally a good idea to use the ROOT context as merely a redirection feature, _especially_ if you've got any possibility of naming conflicts (like you're suggesting). By this, I mean make your ROOT context simply do a redirect (either an HTTP redirect or a JSP/Servlet redirect, depending on what you need to accomplish) to your "real" default web application. It will eliminate problems like this -- naming and implementation/function should be independent.
As for your question, you can't practically get to ROOT/hello in the case you're describing.
justin
At 12:47 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
Then what about ROOT/hello ? How do you get to there?
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> You'd get the hello context.
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> Something just popped in my mind.
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> If you have a ROOT context which has a folder named hello,
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> And you have a context named hello
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> When you request localhost:8080/hello/
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> Which one are you gonna get? The ROOT context or the hello context? I
> will try this out tomorrow, but I wonder how tomcat handles this?
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