[jboss-dev] Should JBAS5.x honor context path in context.xml?

[Anil Saldhana]

Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Anil Saldhana <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6811  has a web application attached
>> (lambda.war).  It has a WEB-INF/context.xml with the following setting:
>>
>> =======
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <Context path="/probe" privileged="true">
>> </Context>
>> ================
>>
>> The expectation is that the context path is set to "/path"
>>
>> But the log shows:
>>
>> =================================
>> 20:00:49,297 INFO  [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/jmx-console
>>                     20:00:49,399 INFO  [TomcatDeployment] deploy,
>> ctxPath=/lambda  =====================================
>>
>> I think this is a bug.
>>     
>
> Setting a path using a context.xml file is not supported in Tomcat
> either (only in server.xml Context elements, which are no longer in AS
> 5 since I think deployments should be done through the JBoss
> deployer).
>
> Rémy
Thanks for the clarification, Remy.  So, context.xml provides currently 
just the valve defs?