ideal tomcat and apache setup

[Brennan Stehling <br...@offwhite.net>]

I have been learning how to configure Apache and Tomcat for a specific 
configuration.  What I have is mutliple virtual hosts in the Apache 
configuration for several websites.  What I would like to do is 
reconfigure it so I can place many JSPs on any of these virtual hosts 
and have them handled by Tomcat within a common set of shared beans and 
taglibs.

So far it seems that this is not very common and I not sure it is even 
possible.  The JSP spec wants each JSP mapped to a specific webapp so 
that sessions can be managed among other things, but if I could have 
Tomcat handle each JSP and map it to a default webapp then I would be 
able to allow users to create and edit their own JSP and I can provide 
beans and taglibs they can use to create article editors, photo 
galleries, schedules and anything else that users would find useful.  I 
want them to have the freedom to customize each JSP to their tastes but 
benefit from the Java library I put together.

I suppose the catch is that the JSPs would not be under the webapps 
directory for Tomcat.  They would be under the Apache document root 
while the webapp would exist elsewhere.  This is the detail I having 
trouble resolving.

Any ideas on configuring such a configuration?  Any opinions if I should 
do this or if I should go another way?

Thanks,

Brennan - http://brighton.offwhite.net


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