Re: [Bodington-developers] /etc

[Alexis O'C. <ale...@co...>]

Antony Corfield wrote:
> Why are web.xml and context.xml in this directory and not WEB-INF? Or, 
> why doesn't build.xml put them there?
>

OK, here's a comprehensive answer!

Both the web.xml and context.xml in /etc are never used *as-is*. Each 
contain tokens  intended to be replaced with text strings that are more 
meaningful @DISPLAY_NAME@ and @DOC_BASE@ respectively. Therefore their 
use is entirely driven from the build.xml.

The web.xml does indeed end up under ${build}/../WEB-INF/, having had 
it's display name set to something like 'bodington (v2.4.3)' (in Tomcat 
this appears in the HTML manager application).

The context.xml is in particular required by the target 
deploy-local-5_5. In order to deploy a web-app from a local file system 
('deploy local') that isn't under ${catalina.home}/webapps onto Tomcat 
5.5 requires this jiggery-pokery. I came to this through trial and 
error, so I know that it is necessary, but that it does work(!). It 
*can* go under ${build}/../WEB-INF/ if you're deploying it as a war 
file), but that's not how I use it (it would be superfluous for a war 
deployed to JBoss say).

Alexis