Nested Web applications.

[Ravi Nathwani <na...@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have multiple web applications. Currently all of them are distributed as 
WAR files and each one has a web.xml file with its own configurations. When 
they are installed, a separate directory for each is created in the /webapps 
folder. These applications are currently working fine.

Now I want to integrate all these application into one. This application 
when installed using its WAR file will create a folder in /webapps say 
/mainapp. This will contain just one initialization servlet and its 
directory structure will look as follows

/webapps/mainapp/apps
/webapps/mainapp/apps/webapp_1.war
/webapps/mainapp/apps/webapp_1
                       /clientcode
                       /lib (3rd party client libraries)
                       /icons
                       /logs
                       /WEB-INF
                          /web.xml
                          /classes (inhouse server classes)
                          /lib (3rd party server libraries)
/webapps/mainapp/apps/webapp_n.war
/webapps/mainapp/apps/webapp_n
                       /clientcode
                       /lib
                       /icons
                       /logs
                       /WEB-INF
                          /web.xml
                          /classes
                          /lib
/webapps/mainapp/common
/webapps/mainapp/common/classes (inhouse common client classes)
/webapps/mainapp/common/icons
/webapps/mainapp/common/lib (3rd party common client libraries)
/webapps/mainapp/license
                   /license.dat (This will determine which webapp to 
install)
/webapps/mainapp/WEB-INF
                   /web.xml
                   /classes (inhouse common server classes)
                   /lib (inhouse and 3rd party common server libraries)

The main application WAR file will contain all the other WAR files in its 
/app folder. Each of the other applications will have an initialization 
servlet and their servlet names would be configured in the main 
application's web.xml file.

How can a servlet tell Tomcat to expand the WAR file and install web 
applications under it?

Regards,
Ravi

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