I am trying to understand how to build and run an app from local with
Tomcat 9 embedded using Java 8. I've started with this example written for
Tomcat 7:
https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/java/basic_app_embedded_tomcat/basic_app-tomcat-embedded.html#overview
I am able to get it to run with Tomcat 9 after a few changes to the pom.xml
and one addition to the main() method:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String contextPath = "" ;
String appBase = ".";
Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat();
tomcat.setPort(Integer.valueOf(PORT.orElse("8888") ));
// next line added for Tomcat 9
tomcat.setConnector(tomcat.getConnector());
tomcat.setHostname(HOSTNAME.orElse("localhost"));
tomcat.getHost().setAppBase(appBase);
tomcat.addWebapp(contextPath, appBase);
tomcat.start();
tomcat.getServer().await();
}
However although this runs it returns a 404 on /employee. Why?
I've tried variations on other Tomcat 9 examples (such as
https://nkonev.name/post/101). There main() methods are considerably more
involved, and I don't follow all that's going on. I've had no success. Some
don't run, or, in the nkonev example earlier, JSPs aren't processed
(probably because of "tomcat.setAddDefaultWebXmlToWebapp(false);" but if I
commnent that out, the Jar won't run).
What's the minimum to get the above main() to serve /employee?
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