-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Neven,
On 11/3/14 6:42 PM, Neven Cvetkovic wrote: > Vince, the current configuration works great: > > 1) If you are a newbie administrator you are going to use > "easy-to-use-newbie-friendly" configuration. It will get you > started, it will get your application working, etc... Great > starting point. > > 2) If you are developer (newbie or expert) and using IDE (Eclipse, > Netbeans, IntelliJ) - you are going to use out-of-box tomcat > configuration. Single Tomcat instance, no-split configuration. > > 3) If you are administrator that is upgrading Tomcat, you will just > create a process to configure your instance with new Tomcat > binaries and copy over the configuration file (most of the stuff is > backwards compatible in server.xml within the point-version) + add > any shared libraries to new tomcat/lib folder (JDBC drivers, > etc...). Again, single-tomcat instance, no-split configuration > necessary. Although, may people do like to split for "easier" > upgrades and separation of concerns. > > 4) If you are administrator that is managing multi-instance > environment, you can still get away with copying standard > out-of-box Tomcat directory over and over again, for each instance > separately. The hassle would be to do the upgrades on many > instances. That's why we have CATALINA_HOME for shared stuff > (binaries+libraries) and CATALINA_BASE for instance-specific > configuration. And in this case you would know about the split > directory setup option and would research how to do that > effectively. > > My question is - why do you use CATALINA_BASE if you are using IDE > (Netbeans)? If you are developer, there is no need to use split > configuration. > > > SLIGHTLY-OFFTOPIC: > > Although, I would love to see out-of-box setup for additional > shared-lib folder, something other than TOMCAT/lib with Tomcat > default libraries. Essentially, I would love to separate my > customer shared libraries from Tomcat default libraries. I guess - > question would be where are CATALINA_HOME/lib JAR files being > loaded from? Can we add another directory to scan for libraries to > be loaded? Is that configurable? I'm not sure about that, but if the Windows installer could ask the user if they want a "unified" versus "split" configuration, that might be nice. The installer could then ask for the location of CATALINA_BASE and offer to create it if necessary. That way, users performing "upgrades" could specify their existing CATALINA_BASE during installation and not have to go back and re-configure the Windows Service. It would also allow newbies to know that there is an "advanced" configuration and perhaps go learn about it. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUWPLHAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYNmsP/3RR7xpKGttbs7iDwAzf29qu EwmQTJd063qcKiDABAkyFfwMy1IQL2/HMM30SL8XFGKhC0kFJZsr/r6kd/Y60cyN Q7+7uDNmvTtDvI4/3j2lTZ4e6gXo7UwTECxYcXinbM+eFnwZFH3xy/u1uC7vv4jV gcJ6TFZInqbArwJGDiCuKsaoPGZe1uqEGhCLJjSAz0Yx3gMZBkhi3wQHIGsZkknA Y9gVw0XAr3oAZHVZMf0bwP+ASH1RwwmRfn5dTgyxnQlAHiJCuA5AKdPtS0L/mkKj m0qk4MLx5+yWJw+Zll0qNkjgCVbZZ44qaDPwQiG2IFQjSj2dRU7a8PTtDjkPtklw SUZN1gqEdozuQPqivePN/QEZWqsnSGUtwRQvfr1cmpi4zcucgS7nyK+HE9ySX9/W H8y61BsTWRV/HHd/d+72/ZxQWH6qR0RKkRQDdwi116bdYb+gRp5B94l0EQ3MHMvB UemvCqvG6sxlB4gKdLjBbFYkn8YUjwRTSrQFbOmpGykW3hAbSnC1qHuwUPQ/ZM2T dqv1cnUn/BCGRUD+0xmiU/8UXim3DAxqaRknwfsWj5Lc5bOkdzWJKvg36fKHI/WD SB7Pcg9vyaV2NFFZh5kJU1xU4DhJ+ZWHqAOW+zzmB0wXqo+mlafkn3YidtMWRTYJ CKZvkdKcmf/6rIiIwRMJ =w+SD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
