Assume latest Tomcat 6.x for current deployment, and 7.x for future deployments.
I host an app for a couple of dozen customers. Naturally, upgrade time can be
a bit of a pain, and I'd like to simplify things.
Assuming that all the customer-specific information (DB connection info, logger
info, etc.) can be described as resources in the context.xml file, would it be
possible to put the actual webapp in a single pre-exploded directory without
causing Tomcat fits?
Example directory tree:
Web-app-1.1
Images
META-INF
JSPs
WEB-INF (with generic web.xml for web-app-1.1)
lib
classes
ROOT.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path=""
docBase="path/to/Web-app-1.1">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SSLAuthenticator"
securePagesWithPragma="false" />
<....resources definitions.... />
</Context>
Then when a new release comes out, I can deploy the web-app once and modify the
individual customer's contexts to point to the new release path as they choose
upgrade (or all at once).
And, yes, I know that disk is cheap and I could just do it by replacing 3-4
dozen war files nearly as easily. And right now, I'm not sure if the future
7.x versioning feature will come in handy as our dev staff haven't started
investigating 7.x yet.
Jeff
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