I am not sure about the second case. But I don't have context.xml in the war (META-INF/ directory) and the application works fine for me.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Angus Mezick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Am I the only one that is REALLY disturbed about that idea of REQUIRING > two identical files to run an app? One in the war file and one in the > conf directory? If the only in the conf directory takes priority, why > the one in the war file needed at all? I am just hoping this isn't in > tomcat 6.0.. The idea of relying on the server to use the correct > version of possibly different files in a production server makes me VERY > nervous. > > --Angus Mezick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Dietrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:22 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: where to place context configuration > > I would very much prefer to use only the one in > mywebapp/META-INF/contex.xml, as this is much less invasive (does not > require changing/adding anything to tomcat's global config > directories). But this doesn't seem to work. > > I can leave it as is (and am becoming resigned to the fact that this > is my only option), but this is sort of a maintenance nightmare since > the two files need to be kept in sync. Plus, it just seems idiotic to > need to declare the context and its resources in two locations. > > Does either of these files need a 'docBase' or 'path' parameter? It > doesn't seem to make a difference either way. > > -rob > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Dietrick wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just noticed that I had a <Context> definition in both > >> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml and in > >> $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/mywebapp.war/META-INF/context.xml. In both of > >> these context definitions, I define a JNDI database connection pool > >> with the same name and identical parameters. This was working fine, > >> but it is confusing, redundant, and runs contrary to the > >> recommendations in the official documentation. > >> > >> However, if i remove either one of these files, I get the dreaded > >> "Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'" error. > >> Can anyone offer any advice? > > > > Just leave it as is? > > > > The one in conf will take priority. > > > > Mark > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
