Dave,
You appear to be right.
Your deployment descriptor should be fine. I found the code that is
causing the problem.
I created a JIRA to track this
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3921) but it should be
fixed (in source at least) very soon.
What version of Geronimo are you using?
Will you be able to move up to the next released version? Or is there
some constraint that will force you to stay on the level that you are
currently on?
(I just want to make sure that the fix gets to you as soon as possible)
Jay
dcherk wrote:
I am deploying my war file into the root context with the following
deployment plan:
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<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0";
xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2";
xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2";
xmlns:security="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.2";>
...
<context-root></context-root>
...
</web-app>
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The application starts up properly, and responds on http://localhost, as
expected.
However, when I examine request.getContextPath(), I get a forward slash:
"/".
This is incorrect, as far as I can tell. According to the API
(http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getContextPath()):
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For servlets in the default (root) context, this method
[HttpServletRequest.html.getContextPath()] returns "".
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So what is wrong? Am I using an incorrect deployment plan? How do I
property deploy into the root context?
Thanks,
Dave Cherkassky
VP of Software Development
DJiNN Software Inc.
P.S.:
I also tried <context-root>/</context-root>, with the same results.
P.P.S.:
The same application deployed in plain vanilla Tomcat 4.1 return the
expected result (empty string) for request.getContextPath().
