I did end up trying it and it did work, I just didn't know if it was something that's frowned upon, or would for whatever reason was planned to be phased out/deprecated. The resources are JDBC definitions.
-Tony --------------------------- Manager, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abia...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:08 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: GlobalNamingResources outside of server.xml > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tony, > > On 4/17/2009 1:01 PM, Anthony J. Biacco wrote: > > I'd like to know if it's possible to now put the <Resource> > directives > > in a file separate from server.xml and still keep them global? > > I don't believe Tomcat itself has any support for this type of thing. > > > The > > server.xml files in my production/dev/staging environments are > > different, and I'd like to be able to just deploy a separate > consistent > > file for all environments. > > What kind of resources are we talking about, here? > > > Maybe something like using DOCTYPE/ENTITY? > > <!DOCTYPE Server [ > > <!ENTITY inc_resources SYSTEM > "/opt/apps/tomcat/conf/resources.xml"> > > ]> > > And then putting &inc_resources; inside the <GlobalNamingResources> > > directive in server.xml > > If the XML parser being used by Tomcat is willing to resolve the > reference, then it would probably work. Did you try it? What happened? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAknuJ5AACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDFjQCfW2nocpR9b1xnX5puIqq9KcE5 > YcgAnR9ZRNAiXeSQl67WojpmfQ2vZa35 > =qzRB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
