"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> Glenn Nielsen wrote:
>
> > >From looking at the source it appears that a Context Lifecycle Listener
> > can only be configured for a web app Context explicitely in server.xml.
> > This doesn't work well when a context is automatically deployed without
> > being configured in server.xml. Would it be possible to add the ability
> > to configure a default web app context Listener at the Engine and Host
> > level that is triggered for all web app contexts if configured at the
> > Engine scope, or for all web app contexts for a host if configured at
> > the Host scope?
> >
>
> A generalization of this concept might be a "default" configuration for an
> automatically deployed Context within a particular Host or Engine, so that
> you could customize things besides context listeners.
>
> This would be especially valuable if you utilize the automatic "User Web
> Applications" support so that URLs like:
>
> http://localhost:8080/~craigmcc/
>
> resolve to my public_html directory. See the "Special Features" section of
> the following page from the Catalina configuration docs for more info:
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/docs/config/host.html
>
> Does it make sense to think a little more broadly here?
>
I totally agree. Being able to setup a default configuration for Hosts or
Webapps
would be very valuable. Inheritance would also be nice. This might also work
to solve the issue I raised earlier about configuring JNDI resources at the
Engine or Host level that get inherited by a web app context.
The virtual host support for configuring multiple hosts, app base location,
and logging is great. But what has been lacking is the above mechanism
for setting default configurations. This is especially important if
you are deploying Tomcat 4 for dozens, perhaps 100's of virtual hosts.
Managing the server.xml config would quickly become a huge headache unless
you had a way to setup defaults for a context including things like JNDI
resources and data sources.
I really need the above feature and am willing to help make it happen.
Regards,
Glenn
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