Matt, We just modify the apache-tomcat-5.5.15-deployer/build.xml script to customize the application when it compiles and deploys it. It's a standard ant build.xml, we just added another target that lets us modify properties and other files for the specific host we are deploying to. Theres a deployer.properties file in the same directory that we add host-specific settings to. Hope this helps - Richard
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Munz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:56 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Configuring a web application at the container level Hi all, Here's a newbie question -- I'm looking forward to RTFM :) I would like to find a consistent way to do application-specific configuration of a web application. Is there a best-practice for this that you might recommend? Consider the following example. I have a hello world application that contains one servlet, which outputs the string "Hello World". The application is bundled in hello-world.war, which I will then deploy in various tomcat instances. Now, if I want to make the output string configurable, I might make an entry in web.xml for this. If I do it this way, then, at each deployment, I have to unpack the web.xml and edit it to include the correct configuration setting (e.g. "Hello World, from your friends at sample.com"). Yuck. I'd much rather put these configuration settings in a central file or registry for each tomcat instance, and then hello-world.war could just inherit those settings from the container. That way I edit the configuration file once, and each re-deploy doesn't require a re-edit of the configuration file. So, how do I do that? JNDI, JMX, something else? Thanks for considering this question. - Matt Munz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
