Thanks for the response. Both 6.0.35 and 7.0.23 exhibit the same behaviour.
In 7.0.23, the docBase is changed back to the context path via the ContextName
now instead of the context.getPath() but the result is the same. Interestingly
enough, there is a comment in the 7.0.23 source on line 750
2011/12/6 Justin Miller :
> Windows 2008 64-bit
> Java 1.6.0_16 32-bit
> Tomcat 6.0.33
>
> Greetings
>
> I'm having some difficulties with the above environment and setting
> unpackWARs = "false" antiResourceLocking = "true" with apps packaged as WAR
> files. It appears that Tomcat is attempting to