Craig R. McClanahan wrote:


> (...)
> We can certainly decide that the "$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/scarab" directory has 
>already
> been deployed under *some* context path, and not deploy it again.  But that means you
> would not be allowed to deploy the same directory under two context paths, even if 
>you
> wanted to -- which might be something a sysadmin wants to do under some circumstances
> (especially if you're embedded inside a J2EE server that uses JNDI contexts to 
>provide
> customized references to JDBC data sources or EJBs).
> 
> What do folks think?  If we're going to change this historical behavior of Tomcat,
> doing so at a major version number change is *much* better than doing it any other
> time.

None of the commiters has answered your question yet, so as a Tomcat 
user I have no problem with the current behavior since I only use the 
standard way ( context path = directory name ).

Thanks, Craig.
Rolf.


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