I have a quick question regarding WARs and Tomcat 4.x, which I hope someone can give me a straight answer for:
I'm reposting this message since I still haven't received an answer: I created a WAR file containing a servlet, and a few JSPs. I put all of the necessary stuff into the web.xml, and created the appropriate structure in the WAR file. According to the TOMCAT documentation, I need to specify a context as follows: <Context debug="0" docBase="MyWebApp.war" path="/MyWebApp" reloadable="true" /> However, this did not work and TOMCAT did not expand the WAR file when I started TOMCAT up. After messing around with it for a bit, I discovered that the following finally got it to work: <Context debug="0" docBase="MyWebApp" path="/" reloadable="true" /> In fact, I even tried leaving the docBase empty "" and it still expanded the WAR file when TOMCAT started up. What gives? I guess I don't have a solid understanding of docBase and path yet. I thought that the purpose of creating a Context entry was to provide the application with its own private context at runtime? If this is so, who's context is this application running under. It certainly doesn't appear to be creating a context for MyWebApp. Ken
