using custom classes in Tomcat configuration files

[Garret Wilson <ga...@globalmentor.com>]

Hi, all. I'm getting close to releasing a new version of my Guise Mummy 
static site generation software.

I gave a presentation over Guise Mummy's use of embedded Tomcat to serve 
the generated site locally for testing before deployment. It uses a 
custom site root and web resource

https://guise.io/mummy/present/clean-urls

Although in my use case I instantiation and connect these things 
programmatically, someone in attendance (I think it was Remy, or maybe 
Chris) mentioned that I could also reference the customized versions in 
one of the configuration files and Tomcat would create the instance 
graph automatically.

I want to make the library flexible, so in this version I'd like to make 
sure that's possible. Could you remind me on the prerequisites for this, 
and what documentation I could look at? Does it use JavaBean conventions 
or some other conventions? (I assume I just need a no-argument 
constructor and some getters/setters, but I want to verify.) And in 
which Tomcat configuration would they go?

Thanks,

Garret


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Re: using custom classes in Tomcat configuration files

[Garret Wilson <ga...@globalmentor.com>]

Hi everyone. I thought I would circle back and answer my own question 
from back in June 2020 (see message thread below).

The thing that creates objects from the server.xml configuration file is 
the Digester 
(https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/Digester.html), 
and it uses the processing rules described in the digester package 
summary 
(https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/package-summary.html#doc.Rules).

Of particular note are the ObjectCreateRule 
(https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/ObjectCreateRule.html) 
and the SetPropertiesRule 
(https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/SetPropertiesRule.html).

You can read more about my upgrading my Guise Mummy components to be 
able to be used in Tomcat configuration files, as well as see related 
code changes, at https://globalmentor.atlassian.net/browse/GUISE-150 .

Now that I have all this working, I won't be coding on Tomcat as often, 
so I'm going to drop off this list for a while to cut down on my inbox 
influx. Thanks for the opportunity to participate in ApacheCon last 
year, and I hope the virtual event this year is a success. I enjoyed 
meeting those of you I met in person, and if things go well maybe I'll 
meet some of you again at an in-face conference in the future.

All the best and stay safe.

Garret

On 6/8/2020 6:59 AM, Garret Wilson wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm getting close to releasing a new version of my Guise 
> Mummy static site generation software.
>
> I gave a presentation over Guise Mummy's use of embedded Tomcat to 
> serve the generated site locally for testing before deployment. It 
> uses a custom site root and web resource
>
> https://guise.io/mummy/present/clean-urls
>
> Although in my use case I instantiation and connect these things 
> programmatically, someone in attendance (I think it was Remy, or maybe 
> Chris) mentioned that I could also reference the customized versions 
> in one of the configuration files and Tomcat would create the instance 
> graph automatically.
>
> I want to make the library flexible, so in this version I'd like to 
> make sure that's possible. Could you remind me on the prerequisites 
> for this, and what documentation I could look at? Does it use JavaBean 
> conventions or some other conventions? (I assume I just need a 
> no-argument constructor and some getters/setters, but I want to 
> verify.) And in which Tomcat configuration would they go?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Garret
>
>
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