Chuck, Building on your idea on using webapps/production#1.0 as a versioning scheme and keeping each application version as a separate context, would the associated <Context> be called "production_1.0"? After more thought, I agree keeping separate contexts. This approach could keep the context in synch with a Source Control Release Tag.
I will use the filter approach to redirect clients to the appropriate release. This situation may happen rarely where you may have multiple production releases based on a new release candidate or a specific client need, but to avoid confusion would it be better to let Source Control Tags define the <Context> or do you recommend a better versioning scheme for the same environment? As you mentioned earlier, I certainly agree with you in NOT developing a confusing maintenance nightmare. I have all these thoughts now because I'm starting a new application now and want to design it correctly from the beginning since it will be a foundation for additional modules. Thanks again for your valuable input. Brandon behofmann wrote: > > I'm creating a web application where I want to define each region > (Development, User Acceptance Testing, and Production) as separate > contexts. Ultimately, clients will use > www.mycompany.com/production/index.jsp to access my web application. > > While designing this application, I would like the ability to serve > multiple application versions within the same context. This would allow > me the flexibility to control access to a new release. Is there a way > within Tomcat to manage multiple applications within the same context > allowing me to direct Company A to > www.mycompany.com/production/1.0/index.jsp and Company B to > www.mycompany.com/production/1.1/index.jsp? > > I was thinking of creating this functionality through a database using the > usersession to determine which application version to serve. I've read > Tomcat documentation and haven't found a definite answer, but I'm > relatively new to configuring Tomcat 6.0.18. I don't want to recreate > this functionality if Tomcat already has it available. > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Brandon > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Serving-Multiple-Application-Versions-within-the-same-Context-tp22715207p22728123.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
