I tried my best with this solution. Actually, using external entities for an XML attribute is not supported with an external file, so the solution in the FAQ does not seem good.
I get a strange error when I do a SYSTEM reference to an external XML file, the webapp can not start. I get for my jdbc datasource : IntrospectionUtils: Assert: Illegal params null ContextResource[name=jdbc/... So I'm afraid I can't use this solution... Regards Gilles -----Message d'origine----- De : Gilles SCHLIENGER [mailto:gilles.schlien...@cncc.fr] Envoyé : vendredi 9 novembre 2018 10:15 À : Tomcat Users List Objet : RE: Default context.xml with parallel deployment Thank you very much Mark for your answer. I will look into the xml entities, I did not know about this feature. I was wondering if a feature like having a "myapplication.xml.default" could be a good idea to include in future Tomcat releases ? Thanks again Regards Gilles -----Message d'origine----- De : Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2018 23:37 À : users@tomcat.apache.org Objet : Re: Default context.xml with parallel deployment On 08/11/2018 20:45, Gilles SCHLIENGER wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We are using Tomcat 9.0.8. > > We are using xml context files in > $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ to store the database connexion > information. > > When using parallel deployment, I understand that you should use for specific > context xml files : > - for myapplication##1.war : myapplication##1.xml > - for myapplication##2.war : myapplication##2.xml > > We would like to have a default context xml file ONLY available for the « > myapplication » application but for all versions > > It seems we could use a file called « context.xml.default » but the > properties would be also available to other applications, which we don't want. > > Is there a way to have a context.xml file available to all versions of the > same application or any other way to do it ? There isn't an explicit Tomcat feature that would do this. Could you do something with XML entities? There is a description of them here: https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Password in the context of moving passwords to an external file. Could you create myapplication.txt and then ship each app with a simple context.xml file that included the above file? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org