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Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: br1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Convenient web application configuration. >> >> The easiest way is to place Context and the different >> Resource elements into each Tomcat's server.xml file. > > Certainly not "easiest" by any definition of the term that I'm familiar > with, especially in a production environment. > It probably depends on requirements. I am familiar calling it the "easiest" and I manage production environments. Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > 1) Restart of Tomcat (not just the webapp) required when *any* changes are > needed. > It just takes a few seconds, and *any* change is done first in the development environment. When the test environment is happy, the production one is just restarted once. Also, do you mean "deploy a webapp under Windows without restarting Tomcat"? Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > 2) Sysadmins don't like app developers mucking with server configurations. > Absolutely! I did not mean this at all. I mean that some sysadmins are happy to waste their time to fix these details themselves for exactly this reason. And they don't like app developers deciding the app path, nor they like app developers decide where their log files should go or where, for instance, a full text index should stay. The list is long, and no one forgot database connections. Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > 3) Doesn't bundle the webapp-specific configuration with the webapp. > Making the webapp point to a development or production database is not specific to the webapp at all. It is specific to the environment (the "context") that the webapp is running on. Same applies to other resources as I mentioned above. Another reason you want to do it: you want connection pooling at the Tomcat instance level, and you use a global JNDI resource, that means "edit the server.xml". (Thunder here) Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > 4) Error prone due to the manual editing required. > > - Chuck > Just like any other file the sysadmin edits.. also see point (1). In no case I was suggesting an app developer to edit files, other than the development environment. br1 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Convenient-web-application-configuration.-tp20244034p20256710.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
