Chris, thank you for your answer. Best regards,
Joe ______________________________________________________________ > Od: "Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > Komu: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Datum: 06.05.2011 16:05 > Předmět: Re: Why deleting of context.xml is NOT optional ? (after deploying > the app) > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Joe, > >On 5/6/2011 8:29 AM, jo...@centrum.cz wrote: >> hmm, "definitely" you are right that the files are deleted on "undeploy" not >> "deploy" >> but don't you think it doesn't matter from the user's point of view ? > >Precision counts when describing bugs. Please be precise. > >Tomcat deletes an auto-deployed context.xml file when a WAR file is >updated. It's quite clear in the documentation: > >http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment > >See the fifth bullet point in the second section: > >" >* Updating a WAR file will trigger an undeploy of the application with >the removal of any associated expanded directory, context file and work >directory. Any current user sessions will not be persisted. >" > >If you don't want this to happen, don't update your WAR file. Instead, >consider using the manager to STOP and START your webapp instead of >triggering an automatic UNDEPLOY. > >> So you say that's definitely fixed for Tomcat 7, but still not fixed in >> Tomcat 6, >> thank you for this hint, this will be the reason for me to migrate to 7. > >The behavior you are describing is by design, and thus cannot be changed >within a particular version (6.0.x in this case) of Tomcat. Switching to >another magor version gives the designers the freedom to make such >breaking changes to the behavior of Tomcat. > >- -chris >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > >iEYEARECAAYFAk3EAAAACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAaHgCfSJgxCd1GshlVE0pkiXXrCJOG >9H4AoKx5WhQvSP6eFB3J2VhJT04MSTxS >=qaQr >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
