Hi all, I'd like to know it is possible to have equivalent functionality to the "extended document root" provided by the WebSphere product. This feature allows you to define a location outside the webapp to make contribution without having to redeploy the application. This mechanism first checks if the resource is present in the application and if not will look for it in the directory extension.
I thought that the functionality provided by the new attribute aliases for the configuration item <context> would have a similar behavior, but I see another operation. First of all it is not possible to set an alias on the context '/', making it necessary to declare all the directories in which you want to make the contribution. Also when I set an alias for a directory present in my webapp, it becomes a priority and files in my webapp are no longer available. Do I understand correctly how this new attribute aliases has to be used ? Is it possible with Tomcat 7 to set up a mechanism similar to the extended document root of Websphere? Thank you in advance for your support.
