Q1: you have to look into Manager.java deploy method. But if you take a look at the message on top of manager/html/list page, you will see
OK - Deployed application from context file file:${catalina_home}/conf/${engine}/${host}/onlinestore.xml Q2: yes, use JNDI lookup. -----Original Message----- From: David Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 26, 2004 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interesting discoveries about catalina GUI manager deploy (5.0.28 and 5.0.29) Phillip, thanks the context.xml file works. I finally got the JNDI mail/Session to work. But I found one thing interesting about the GUI manager deploy (upload the ant generated war file) After I uploaded the war file, I found that this action not only uppacked war into the myapp directory with the context.xml in mata-inf directory, ALSO, it generated myapp.xml in C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.29\conf\Catalina\localhost This discovery is inconsistent with the JNDI doc says: either myapp.xml in C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.29\conf\Catalina\localhost or in meta-inf/context.xml. Another question is: how do I get the JNDI enviroment variable value from the java program? still using ctx.lookup or other way. Any idea. Again thanks for the help!! david !DSPAM:417eab4841116084513682!