I suppose several directories in one context would do about the same
thing. I'm not sure that a context does anything special per se, but
grouping several applications under one webware instance eases
administration--only one server to restart/maintain, don't have to deal
with opening/setting up ports for each application (lots of red tape).
Webware can gracefully handle restarts (maintains active sessions), so
restarting an app server is not such a big deal (and by the time code
gets to out production server, it should be bullet-proof and virtually
never require a restart).
Winston Wolff wrote:
Hi John-
I'm curious about what the context does for you that you like? I'm
wondering if you just had different directories inside one context,
wouldn't that be about the same as different contexts?
idea (and if it really is a bad idea, I'd love to know why), but it
seems to
I don't see it as a really bad idea, only that it's not that useful
and there is a lot of special-case code to handle it.
-winston
On Jan 31, 2005, at 10:06 AM, John Dickinson wrote:
I have not used tomcat, but we do use webware contexts to separate
"applications" from one another. Others on the list may think this is
a bad idea (and if it really is a bad idea, I'd love to know why),
but it seems to work for us. We have four instances of webware
running: develop, model, demo, and prod. Develop is where we do all
of our developing. Model and demo are for relatively stable versions
for additional testing and demonsration purposes, and prod is where
our production versions live. All four have the same (or similar)
directory/context structure. So there may be a dozen different
contexts in each of develop, model, etc., and each context is its own
separate application. As each project (application) is developed, it
moves through our four webware instances from develop to prod. I
don't know if this system meets your needs for "separation," but it
works for us.
--John
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