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Tomcat 5.0.7 Alpha

Since java.blogs has already seen an announcement for Tomcat 5.0.7, there's no reason for me to do it as well. But, there is a very cool enhancement added to this release. From the changelog:

~ Allow putting a /META-INF/context.xml inside any WAR file

This allows much easier deployment IMO. Now you only need to deploy/upload one file, instead of the WAR file and a config (context.xml) file. However, this isn't part of the J2EE 1.4 spec, and other appservers have their own means of configuring - so this is not a portable solution. It would be very cool if there was a common way of doing this for Resin, Orion and Tomcat. I don't know how it would work, but maybe something like META-INF/tomcat-config.xml, META-INF/orion-config.xml, etc.

Posted in Java at Aug 11 2003, 09:11:12 AM MDT 6 Comments
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You mean, like Orion's WEB-INF/orion-web.xml?

Posted by Unknown on August 11, 2003 at 04:20 PM MDT #

Tomcat 5 is starting to look good. If only I could get a JSP to compile... I keep getting a org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP and java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: -1 on any JSP that I try. The examples all run fine, but of course those are all pre-compiled. Scratching my head on this one...

Posted by John Cavacas on August 11, 2003 at 07:35 PM MDT #

I've had no problems deploying AppFuse on Tomcat 5.0.4+ - my JSPs are not pre-compiled and all seems to work fine. Is it possible that 5.x is a little more strict and your JSPs have errors in them? I'd try contacting the tomcat-user mailing list to see if your errors have been seen before.

Posted by Matt Raible on August 11, 2003 at 07:46 PM MDT #

Thanks Matt. Yep, i have been. I've also sent a post to the mailing list itself. I've also tried struts-blank.war (by dropping it in /webapps/) and the same error occours. Funny enough, creating a new JSP in the existing jsp-examples app, seems to work just fine. I'll keep diggin :)

Posted by John Cavacas on August 11, 2003 at 07:56 PM MDT #

I'm in two minds about this after working with JBoss and other containers. If being able to put a "context.xml" helps me config a common datasource, this is cool. But what happens when we start configuring other things? Besides, if it can belong in a specific Webapp's context.xml, why can't it just be in the web.xml? Because it doesn't belong there.

Posted by Pratik Patel on August 11, 2003 at 08:40 PM MDT #

See http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22277, workaround: set "suppressSmap" to "true" in "conf/web.xml".

Posted by Libor Pleva on August 13, 2003 at 07:57 AM MDT #

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