you may very well be publishing to your own webapp context.xml i.e $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/YourWebApp/META-INF/context.xml Until you feel comfortable with the reliability of deployment ..in the meanwhile I would create your war by hand (and then let the IDE automate only after you have already established a reliable manual deployment environment) *Most IDE's* support the capability to export build command which will produce a build.xml you can work with this presupposes you have downloaded ANT and set ANT_HOME to the location where you installed Ant M- ********************************************************************* This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Struggling with basic database connection > On Saturday 23 September 2006 15:23, David Smith wrote: >> Correction: context.xml belongs in META-INF of the war archive. > > OK, I am begining to comprehend - and knowledge about the context.xml in the > META-INF file for a WAR archive is good. I was looking for a way to wrap all > the info about the application in one directory structure - for my version > control. > > Does this work with Tomcat 5.0 - thats my current production environment? > > HOWEVER, in the short term I am not working with WAR files - instead I am > trying to deploy the application inside Eclipse. I tried creating a directory > etc under eclipse's (probably WTP plugin's) server configuration, but it > doesn't publish that to the conf directory inside it's CATALINA_HOME. > > So still not sure how to proceed. > > > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
