I'm using Tomcat 6.0.18 on Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista (UAC disabled).
I have a web application with a lot of configuration options, all currently stored as servlet initialization parameters in WEB-INF/web.xml. The parameters are site specific and are different for my development machine, the machines of the two other developers working on the project, and the production machine. I am the only developer working on the web application. My problem is that web.xml is part of the web application WAR file. Also web.xml differs for the 4 different machine the web application runs on. This means that every single time I make a release, I have to comment and uncomment blocks of parameters in web.xml, build 4 separate WAR files customized for each machine, and make the 4 separate WAR files available to each of the 4 people running the web application. This is very cumbersome and it seems unreasonably complicated, and has already led to a number of distribution mistakes on multiple occasions. Is there a better place I can store site-specific configuration options? Any suggestions would be helpful. Similarly, I have a JDBC data source defined in META-INF/context.xml. The data source parameters are different for each machine. Is there some other way I can define data sources so that I don't have to maintain separate WAR files for each configuration? Ideally I'd be able to put the settings in context.xml and web.xml somewhere outside of the web application directory, and leave them out of the web-app's local files, and so they wouldn't have to be packaged with the WAR and deploying the WAR wouldn't blow away existing configuration data. Thanks, Jason --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
