I'll put tomcat 7 on our dev environment and have a go at it. I'm excited about the alias functionality, thanks so much for pointing it out Mark, from the 7.0 docs:
"aliases" attribute of the context element: This attribute provides a list of external locations from which to load resources for this context. The list of aliases should be of the form "/aliasPath1=docBase1,/aliasPath2=docBase2" where aliasPathN must include a leading '/' and docBaseN must be an absolute path to either a .war file or a directory. A resource will be searched for in the first docBaseN for which aliasPathN is a leading path segment of the resource. If there is no such alias, then the resource will be searched in the usual way. Using '/' as an aliasPath is not allowed. Consider using docBase instead. **These external locations will not be emptied if the context is un-deployed.** On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 24/08/2010 20:00, Jason Britton wrote: > >> In Tomcat 7 you could use an alias. > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> > > Definitely interested. Is there a time frame on when 7 will have a non-beta > > release? Thanks for the heads up. > > The more people that test it and report problems, the sooner it will be > out of beta. Hint, hint :) > > Some *very* rough download stats from the middle of last month suggest > that the split for downloads was: > 5.5.x - 60% > 6.0.x - 30% > 7.0.x - 10% > > Given that those figures would are for 7.0.0 and the bug fixes that went > into 7.0.2, that is actually quite encouraging. > > There is no fixed time-scale but the signs are encouraging for it being > relatively soon. > > Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
