Context entries don't work as explained in tomcat docs. ------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-6562 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6562 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: Web (Tomcat) service Reporter: Vicky Kak Assignee: Vicky Kak Fix For: JBossAS-5.1.0.Beta1, JBossAS-4.2.4.GA The documentation about the context configuration in Tomcat does not work in JbossAS deployments. I have just spend some time looking at the related code at http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/JBPAPP_4_2/tomcat/src/mai... Here is the code snippet **************************************************************** private String findConfig(URL warURL) throws IOException { String result = null; // See if the warUrl is a dir or a file File warFile = new File(warURL.getFile()); if (warURL.getProtocol().equals("file") && warFile.isDirectory() == true) { File webDD = new File(warFile, CONTEXT_CONFIG_FILE); if (webDD.exists() == true) result = webDD.getAbsolutePath(); } else { ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(warFile); ZipEntry entry = zipFile.getEntry(CONTEXT_CONFIG_FILE); if (entry != null) { InputStream zipIS = zipFile.getInputStream(entry); byte[] buffer = new byte[512]; int bytes; result = warFile.getAbsolutePath() + "-context.xml"; FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(result); while ((bytes = zipIS.read(buffer)) > 0) { fos.write(buffer, 0, bytes); } zipIS.close(); fos.close(); } zipFile.close(); } return result; } **************************************************************** This code needs to be modified in such a way that it uses these configurations ************************************************************************************** 1. in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that host 2. in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml) extension will be used as the context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. context#path.xml. The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml. 3. if the previous file was not found for this application, in an individual file at /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files inside a Host element in the main conf/server.xml ************************************************************************************** The point[3] is already rejected earlier by Scott, here is the related jira https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-2290 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira