Best practices for deploying applications to the root context...

[Nathan Wilhelmi <wi...@ucar.edu>]

Hello - We are using Tomcat 5.5.19. We need to deploy applications to 
the root context, ideally we would like to deploy them to through the 
ant deploy tasks. Initially I specified the root context path in the 
server.xml file, however this has problems. For example I had the ant 
script deploy to the context test, and the root context entry in 
server.xml would point to that path. This works fine, except that it 
requires tomcat to be restarted after a deployment, which really defeats 
the benefits of the ant deployment, the test context would be updated 
but the root context was still the previous version. I tried removing 
the context entries from server.xml and deploying to the / path from 
Ant. This works however if the server has to be restarted the 
application is not persisted and must be redeployed. What are the best 
practices for deploying to the root context, any special requirements 
from the Ant side?

Thanks!

-Nate

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RE: Best practices for deploying applications to the root context...

[Tim Lucia <ti...@yahoo.com>]

Here is my deployment rule, which deposits the project war file onto the
given tomcat server, under the root context (path=/).

HTH,
Tim



    <!-- reload the specified context                                -->
    <target
        name="deploy-context"
        description="Reload the given context">
        <fail unless="tomcat.username">Undefined: tomcat.username</fail>
        <fail unless="tomcat.password">Undefined: tomcat.password</fail>
        <fail unless="tomcatURL">Undefined: tomcatURL</fail>
        <echo taskname="deploy-context">
Deploying ${basedir}/${project.war} to ${tomcatURL}
        </echo>
        <undeploy
            failonerror="false"
            taskname="deploy-context"
            username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}"
            url     ="${tomcatURL}"
            path    ="/"/>
        <deploy
            taskname="deploy-context"
            username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}"
            url     ="${tomcatURL}"
            path    ="/"
            war     ="file:${basedir}/${project.war}"/>
    </target>


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Wilhelmi [mailto:wilhelmi@ucar.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:37 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Best practices for deploying applications to the root context...

Hello - We are using Tomcat 5.5.19. We need to deploy applications to 
the root context, ideally we would like to deploy them to through the 
ant deploy tasks. Initially I specified the root context path in the 
server.xml file, however this has problems. For example I had the ant 
script deploy to the context test, and the root context entry in 
server.xml would point to that path. This works fine, except that it 
requires tomcat to be restarted after a deployment, which really defeats 
the benefits of the ant deployment, the test context would be updated 
but the root context was still the previous version. I tried removing 
the context entries from server.xml and deploying to the / path from 
Ant. This works however if the server has to be restarted the 
application is not persisted and must be redeployed. What are the best 
practices for deploying to the root context, any special requirements 
from the Ant side?

Thanks!

-Nate

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