RE: How do I specify a different workDir for each user accessing the same Tomcat 4.1.27 implementation

["Biswas, Goutam_Kumar" <Go...@deshaw.com>]

Shapira,

If I'm not too demanding :-) can you please explain why it is a bad idea to
use the same Tomcat instance for more than one user. Is it performance
related or is it something else ?

Regards,
Goutam


-----Original Message-----
From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:14 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: How do I specify a different workDir for each user accessing
the same Tomcat 4.1.27 implementation



Howdy,
If you want to use the same tomcat instance (bad idea IMHO), use a
different CATALINA_HOME for each user with the same CATALINA_BASE.  Take
the rest of your configurations, especially the Loader, out of
server.xml.

A better alternative is to have a completely separate tomcat instance
for each developer.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Biswas, Goutam_Kumar [mailto:Goutam-Kumar-Biswas@deshaw.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:43 PM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: How do I specify a different workDir for each user accessing
the
>same Tomcat 4.1.27 implementation
>
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to manage a development team wherein each user uses the
same
>instance of Tomcat for development. I do this by having a different
>server.xml file for each user and having the context docBase point to
the
>build/webapps directory of each user, like shown below:
>
>       <Context path="/POS"
>
docBase="/u/biswasg/Proj/pos/bin/share/../../build/webapps"
>               debug="0"
>          reloadable="true"
>        crossContext="false"
>       swallowOutput="true">
>
>       <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>               directory="logs/biswasg"
>                  prefix="pos_log."
>                  suffix=".txt"
>               timestamp="false"/>
>
>       </Context>
>
>Now I want to specify a different workDir for each user also. How do I
do
>that? I tried adding the following <Loader> element inside the
<Context>
>but
>it doesn't work:
>
>       <Context path="/POS"
>
docBase="/u/biswasg/Proj/pos/bin/share/../../build/webapps"
>               debug="0"
>          reloadable="true"
>        crossContext="false"
>       swallowOutput="true">
>
>       <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>               directory="logs/biswasg"
>                  prefix="pos_log."
>                  suffix=".txt"
>               timestamp="false"/>
>
>	<Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader"
>                 delegate="false"
>               reloadable="false"
>                  workDir="work/biswasg"/>
>       </Context>
>
>
>I want to do this as all JSP pages are now being compiled into the same
>work
>directory for every user. So if two or more users are concurrently
working
>on the same JSP page they sometimes end up with a feature that they
never
>added! (and which someone else working on the same JSP page might have
>added). So they ask me the question "Hey, I didn't add this... How did
that
>thing get in there?". And that triggered me into thinking that if I can
>specify a different workDir for each user the problem will be solved...
>
>Is this really do-able ?
>
>Regards,
>-Goutam
>
>
>
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