Re: [Bodington-developers] /etc

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

Ok Alexis, as a developer, I don't want to deploy a war file, I just 
want to build the webapp and copy the contents of build directory to 
${catalina.home}/webapps wherever that might be. If I use the build 
target catalina.xml and web.xml are missing from the resulting WEB-INF 
folder. Which build target should I use?

On 13 Jul 2005, at 14:12, Alexis O'Connor wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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