Hi,There's one thing I don't like in Tomcat: I have to edit server.xml file to add new global resources (i.e. data ource definition). It's not a big problem on a production, one doesn't change such things often. But on developement server it's quite annoing.
I don't want to put datasource definition inside META-INF/context.xml. There's already resourceLink there (in my case). Sure, I could have two versions of context.xml, one for production and the other for dev, but... but I dont't want to change that ;-)
I'd like to be able to: place a small xml file (i.e. resource definition, exactly like in the server.xml) in some directory watched by Tomcat, and Tomcat to 'deploy' it (create a datasource, mail session, etc). Just like it do with resource elements. I think that JBoss has that feature, but it's too heavy for my needs.
I have tried and it is possible to create new datasources via JMX, without restarting Tomcat.
Is there such a tool or I have to write it? ;-) There're some promising entries in the server.xml file: <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" /><Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/>
What do you think? -- Mikolaj Rydzewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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