DO NOT REPLY [Bug 19602] New: - Allow users of ant deploy to set the docBase of the Context

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Allow users of ant deploy to set the docBase of the Context

           Summary: Allow users of ant deploy to set the docBase of the
                    Context
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: johannes.fiala@fwd.at


CURRENT STATE:
It is not possible to set the docBase to a specific value. The docBase 
parameter is always calculated at StandardHostDeployer.java and cannot be set 
by the user by setting the docBase-attribute at context.xml.

ENHANCEMENT:
I changed StandardHostDeployer.java to check whether the parameter 
overrideDocBase is set to false. If this is the case, I do not override the 
docBase, but use the docBase set by the user at context.xml.
line 446ff.
public synchronized void install(URL config, URL war) throws IOException {

I also needed some additional libraries, which I added at the top.
The changes have been marked with comments.

I suspect the first install routine at line 356 may also need some changes, but 
I don't know how to test it and so I left it unchanged. Additionally, I am 
satisfied with the change of the install routine at line 446ff.

USE CASE:
ant deploy with a context.xml with
<Context overrideDocBase="false" docBase="c:\...\XXX.war" ...>
will set the docBase to XXX.war at the server side.

overrideDocBase="true" or omitting overrideDocBase will use the default 
behaviour.

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