On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Neven, > > On 11/3/14 6:42 PM, Neven Cvetkovic wrote: > > Vince, the current configuration works great: > > > > SLIGHTLY-OFFTOPIC: > > > > Although, I would love to see out-of-box setup for additional > > shared-lib folder, something other than TOMCAT/lib with Tomcat > > default libraries. Essentially, I would love to separate my > > customer shared libraries from Tomcat default libraries. I guess - > > question would be where are CATALINA_HOME/lib JAR files being > > loaded from? Can we add another directory to scan for libraries to > > be loaded? Is that configurable? > > I'm not sure about that, but if the Windows installer could ask the > user if they want a "unified" versus "split" configuration, that might > be nice. The installer could then ask for the location of > CATALINA_BASE and offer to create it if necessary. That way, users > performing "upgrades" could specify their existing CATALINA_BASE > during installation and not have to go back and re-configure the > Windows Service. It would also allow newbies to know that there is an > "advanced" configuration and perhaps go learn about it. > > - -chris > > The Tomcat zip file distribution could easily do this now. Add a CATALINA_BASE directory pre-configured with a read-me file that explains to users they can move this directory elsewhere, and update a property that points back to the CATALINA_HOME directory wherever they unzipped that. This would be an easy "optional" configuration to include for a split configuration.
