Charles Curley writes:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Charles Curley wrote:
> > > I have tomcat5-5.0.30-5jpp_6fc on FC4 as updated. My client has sent
> > > me a war package, foo.war, to install & document. I can deploy it
> > > via tomcat's manager.
> > >
> > > One problem I hit is that the web.xml file contains a macro, used
> > > several places, e.g:
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > <param-value>${catalina.home}/webapps/foo</param-value>
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > I don't see anything in the tomcat docs that suggests that macro
> > > expansion can be turned on or off.
> >
> > Does Tomcat have macro expansion? That looks like an Ant macro to me...
>
> Yes, it does look like an Ant macro. Maybe they share the same macro
> expansion code.
>
> I installed a Sun JVM and Tomcat from Apache's web site on another
> machine, and have had no problems with this. I moved the Tomcat tree
> to another location, and it continued to work.
Where is the macro ${catalina.home} defined? How does this macro
propagate to the context in which Tomcat reads web.xml?
Is there any way to prepare a test case for this stuff?
Andrew.
