Mark, Thanks for the feedback and thoughts. I figured it might not be supported and a little risky - since I found no references or experiences. I'll certainly report back if any inherent problems do pop up.
markt-2 wrote: > > Richard M wrote: >> Progress: Well so far it seems to work in preliminary testing. Is there >> anything or any reason to shy away from this solution? Both Tomcat's will >> have separate work directories. The JSP's will run on the first Tomcat >> instance, the batch processing on the second. >> >> Thanks in advance for any ideas, thoughts, etc. - Richard > > I'd be nervous about this simply because it isn't, as far as I am aware, a > requirement that was considered when designing it. That said, > - separate work dirs are a must and will resolve most (all?) issues and > you > are already doing this > - sharing a single directory should be OK, sharing a WAR or the entire > appBase is likely to be more problematic > - I assume you are using a context.xml file on at least one instance. If > you have one on both, be careful to keep the two in sync > > Other than that, if you testing looks good then you should be OK. > > Just as a word of warning, if you do hit a bug that is caused by the > sharing of the dir then depending on the bug it might not get fixed on the > grounds that it is an unsupported configuration. Equally, if it is a > simple > fix that has little/no impact then it is likely that it would be applied. > > Good luck! > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-two-Tomcat%27s-safely-share-the-same-webapps-directory--tp18823860p18831164.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
