[JIRA OPENEJB-975]Re: Web application not well deployed

[Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <je...@atosorigin.com>]

OK,

I proposed a patch to the related JIRA.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENEJB-975

Regards,
JLouis


Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
> 
> Dain,
> 
> Yes, you can do that to define a default application.
> Extract from the documentation
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html):
> [...]
> If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining
> the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests
> not assigned to other Contexts.
> [...]
> 
> OK, I will have a look deeper and open a JIRA (with a patch).
> 
> Regards,
> Jean-Louis
> 
> 
> 
> Dain Sundstrom wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 24, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm using openejb 3.1 embedded in tomcat 5.5.17.
>>> Deploying an application <Context docBase="path to webapp" path="/ 
>>> sample" />
>>> works fine.
>>> Using an empty path (ie. path="") can provide some unpredicted  
>>> behavior
>>> (injection in servlets, ...).
>>>
>>> May be TomcatWebAppBuilder of the openejb-tomcat-catalina module can  
>>> be
>>> enhanced.
>>> I've noticed some lines
>>> 166: standardContext.setPath("/" + webApp.contextRoot);
>>> 255: if (("/" + w.contextRoot).equals(standardContext.getPath())) {
>>> 339: if (("/" +  
>>> webAppInfo.contextRoot).equals(standardContext.getPath())) {
>>>
>>> that should be changed to accept empty path.
>>>
>>> Any comment ?
>> 
>> Sounds good.  I didn't know you could do that in tomcat :)
>> 
>>> Can I open a JIRA ?
>> 
>> Yep, and attach the patch (make sure to select the button to license  
>> the patch to apache).
>> 
>>> I will have a look into TomcatWebAppBuilder (deeper) to submit a  
>>> patch if
>>> you want.
>>>
>> 
>> -dain
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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