On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 16:44, <chad.da...@emc.com> wrote: > I'm reading Tomcat: The Definitive Guide to learn how to separate your > instance specific files from your core installation, i.e. CATALINE_HOME; this > separation is for providing a clean upgrade path as well as running multiple > instances of tomcat off of the same installation. > > A lot of the stuff they recommend pulling out into instance specific > directories make sense, such as conf and webapps -- those folders contain the > obvious application specific data. However, the also recommend pulling out > all of the folders that contain the jars that hold runtime classes. To quote > directly from their book: > > "Also, some jar files and class files may need to be loaded from the shared, > server, and common directory trees. This means that for multiple instances to > work, each Tomcat instance has to have its own set of these directories; they > cannot be shared by two differently configured Tomcat JVM instances." > > Why would separate instances require their own jar files? Is it not possible > to point two concurrently executing jvm's at the same set of jar files? >
It is entirely possible, of course. But you'll have some maintenance work to do if ever you wish to change the jars for _one_ Tomcat installation among many. -- Francis Galiegue ONE2TEAM Ingénieur système Mob : +33 (0) 683 877 875 Tel : +33 (0) 178 945 552 f...@one2team.com 40 avenue Raymond Poincaré 75116 Paris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
