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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Bill Lynch <bi...@gmail.com> on 2005/02/22 23:08:50 UTC
Merge webapp doc roots
All,
I'm developing a webapp and for various reasons it has multiple
document roots which can override each other. For example, c:\webapp
is one directory, but c:\webapp-editionA and c:\webapp-editionB are
other editions of the same application. There are a base set of JSPs
in the 'webapp' directory and some of those are overridden in the
'edition' directories. I do my development in different modes -- so if
I'm developing the webapp for edition A I'll need the jsp's from the
base directory plus those in the A directory.
Resin has a new "merge()" function which will merge together different
doc roots for a webapp:
<web-app id="/foo"
document-directory="merge:(c:\webapp;c:\webapp-editionA);" .. />
This means everything in webapp-editionA will override what's in
webapp. I do this right now and it works perfectly for development.
My question is -- is this possible in Tomcat? I'd like to use Tomcat
for more dev, mostly because of it's blazing fast JSP compilation in
5.5 (very impressive BTW!).
Thanks in advance,
--Bill
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Re: Merge webapp doc roots
Posted by Bill Lynch <bi...@gmail.com>.
QM,
Yes, I could definitely do that but the nice thing now is that I don't
need to use a build process to copy & merge so it's nice and fast.
Thanks anyway,
--Bill
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:12:23 -0600, QM <qm...@brandxdev.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Bill Lynch wrote:
> : Resin has a new "merge()" function which will merge together different
> : doc roots for a webapp:
> : [snip]
> : <web-app id="/foo"
> : document-directory="merge:(c:\webapp;c:\webapp-editionA);" .. />
> :
> : This means everything in webapp-editionA will override what's in
> : webapp. I do this right now and it works perfectly for development.
> :
> : My question is -- is this possible in Tomcat?
>
> To my knowledge, no, this is not possible using Tomcat alone. Tomcat
> expects a standard webapp (that is, either wrapped in a WAR file or in
> exploded-dir format).
>
> You can achieve what you're after by moving the merge into your build
> process -- that is, have Ant (or whatever you use) create the dir/WAR by
> copying all of those webapps to it (that is, copy them over one
> another).
>
> -QM
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Re: Merge webapp doc roots
Posted by QM <qm...@brandxdev.net>.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Bill Lynch wrote:
: Resin has a new "merge()" function which will merge together different
: doc roots for a webapp:
: [snip]
: <web-app id="/foo"
: document-directory="merge:(c:\webapp;c:\webapp-editionA);" .. />
:
: This means everything in webapp-editionA will override what's in
: webapp. I do this right now and it works perfectly for development.
:
: My question is -- is this possible in Tomcat?
To my knowledge, no, this is not possible using Tomcat alone. Tomcat
expects a standard webapp (that is, either wrapped in a WAR file or in
exploded-dir format).
You can achieve what you're after by moving the merge into your build
process -- that is, have Ant (or whatever you use) create the dir/WAR by
copying all of those webapps to it (that is, copy them over one
another).
-QM
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