On Thursday 20 February 2003 02:56 pm, Wendy Smoak wrote:
> > Wendy, why are you dealing with war files during development at all? Ant
>
> does
>
> > a great job installing and reloading from "docBases" at arbitrariry
>
> locations
>
> > on the filesystem.
>
> At the moment, I don't have my development files arranged in a "webapp"
> structure (with WEB-INF, etc.).  I was developing directly underneath
> /path/to/tomcat/webapps with everything expanded, and I recently moved it
> all to a different location.  I thought I was doing it "right" actually,
> but now I see the error of my ways. ;)  I also didn't realize that
> "docBase" could *be* anywhere outside of the Tomcat directory structure!
>
> Rearranging everything now... thanks for the advice.

One more benefit of a standardized project directory structure is relative 
ease of checking source code in a source control system. CVS + Ant's Catalina 
tasks + Tomcat, of course (and, shhhh, Linux) -- my life is beautiful.

Paul

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