Re: [Exist-open] Redeploy of war blows away database?

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@gm...>]

> Turns out that when the war build is executed, an xsl is run that blows away
> the file locations in the conf.xml file and replaces them with default values
> (ie. the applications WEB-INF/data directory will always be used).

Well, the ant scripts could certainly need a bit of cleanup and
redesign. There are also other areas to be improved, e.g. the
automatic downloading of required jars for optional components. If you
would like to contribute something, you are certainly welcome ;-)

> So...if you want to use the war distribution, you have to either patch the
> conf.xml file in the war, or modify the xsl.

Ok, so maybe the xsl should just create another template, which then
has to be manually copied by the user.

Wolfgang