On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Or maybe the macro was supposed to be expanded when foo.war was built,
> by the Ant that built it, however...
I doubt that. The build box might have a different ${catalina.home},
or no Tomcat at all.
>
> > I installed a Sun JVM and Tomcat from Apache's web site on another
> > machine, and have had no problems with this. I moved the Tomcat tree
> > to another location, and it continued to work.
>
> ...if this is the case then I guess it _is_ supposed to be expanded by
> Tomcat. It seems fishy though, as any webapp that did such a thing
> would automatically become container-specific. Is it actually part of
> the Servlet specification or is it a Tomcat-specific feature do you
> know?
I searched the spec on "macro", and "$" and found nothing that
indicated that it was required by the spec. However,
SRV.1.5 Relationship to Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
The Java Servlet API v.2.4 is a required API of the Java 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition, v.1.41. Servlet containers and
servlets deployed into them must meet additional requirements,
described in the J2EE specification, for executing in a J2EE
environment.
(Java(tm) Servlet Specification Version 2.4P)
I have not checked the J2EE spec.
I can ask my client, but they're in a product release crunch, so I
shouldn't right now.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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