On 16/10/2014 19:11, vince.w...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: > Hello > I'm coming back to Tomcat after years using GlassFish. The little that I ever > understood of Tomcat 3, 4 and 5 is now decidedly rusty so I've been reading > Tomcat 7's RUNNING.txt with interest. > > The section under the heading: > Advanced Configuration - Multiple Tomcat Instances > Looks interesting to me even though I have no desire to run multiple > instances. > > Configuring CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE to be separate directories looks > to me like such a winning idea that I'm left wondering, why the default > TOMCAT installation puts all that stuff in one directory ?
I'm not sure that is any reason other than "it has always been that way". It is something to consider for 9.0.x (work starting on that soon). An interesting question here is how smart should we / could we make the Windows installer? > I have not looked to see if Tomcat 8 separates them. It doesn't. Mark > > I welcome your thoughts. > > Vince > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains > information that may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not an > intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this > e-mail and any attachments. Certain required legal entity disclosures can be > accessed on our website.<http://thomsonreuters.com/prof_disclosures/> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
