Thanks a lot, Christopher and Mark! Wow, lot of knowledge and pointers to move forward. I've debugged a bit around both ContextConfig and JspServlet, and it is exactly as you described. This saves a hell lot of work for me and helps avoid some stressful meetings :D
Thanks a lot! Also for the reference of the Servlet spec, I think it's time to go through it. Have a nice weekend, guys! Best, Richard On 25 January 2018 at 11:33, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 25/01/18 05:25, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > <snip/> > > > You can also use <init-param> in WEB-INF/web.xml for the JSP servlet. > > You will probably have to copy those settings you want from the JSP > > configuration in conf/web.xml because I don't think Tomcat will merge > > init-param between the two files. > > Tomcat should merge the init-param entries. The rules for merging the > default web.xml file are as follows. > > 1. Web fragments, annotations etc. are merged into the main web.xml as > per the Servlet spec merge rules to created an updated main web.xml. > > 2. The default web.xml is them merged into the updated main web.xml as > if the default web.xml was a web fragment again following the Servlet > spec rules with one exception. If there is a conflict, rather than > triggering an error, the updated main web.xml always takes precedence. > > The code that does this is in ContextConfig and WebXml. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
