Re: [JBoss-dev] shared server root deployment feature regression in 4.0.2 due to Tomcat

[<aco...@jb...>]

Both Adrian and I looked at it.  I was going to patch Tomcat but managed 
to just achieve much of what we wanted with soft links (which was far 
more expedient).  It is possible to make Tomcat do this but not without 
having to unravel a few layers.

-Andy

Scott M Stark wrote:
> Then we need a variation of the binding service mgr test to validate
> stuff we promote. How hard did you look to see if the work dir could be
> overriden?  
> 
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>>Behalf Of aco...@jb...
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>>To: jbo...@li...
>>Subject: [JBoss-dev] shared server root deployment feature 
>>regression in 4.0.2 due to Tomcat
>>
>>One of the ways we used to advocate installing JBoss 
>>(including in adminstration training) was with a shared JBoss 
>>directory and divergent "user" directories.  It is no longer 
>>possible as of 4.0.2 to do this without a divergent "server" 
>>root directory (you can still share conf with soft links) due 
>>to issues with Tomcat.  Tomcat has no straightforward way of 
>>overriding where it writes its work directory and insists on 
>>writing the work directory to "server" root.  It may be 
>>possible to run with a divergent CATALINA_HOME but that 
>>causes other problems.  This was less of a problem in the 
>>past for some reason (I think it didn't have this TLD cache 
>>serialized to work).  In the past just precompiling your JSP 
>>pages allowed you to use this setup (as tomcat didn't appear 
>>to use this TLD cache thing).  Presently if Tomcat cannot 
>>write to work then the apps fail to deploy.
>>
>>-Andy
>>
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