Hi people, Pedro, This is both a sad & funny true story.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39594 > We were trying to make our servlets use relative path so that our deplayment > would > be faster. In the process we try putting $Catalina_home in the path for the > base doc > [etc] > After this we noticed a folder called $CATALINA_HOME in the root dir for > tomacat, we > never created such a dir so we whent ahead and deleted it. For our surprise, > that > folder was linked to the root folder for tomcat and deleted everything. --- As I said, this was both humorous and tragic. Humorous because Tomcat and it's folders thoughtfully nuked Pedro's root - I can just see the expression on his face and mouth hanging slightly open. Gotcha! Tragic, because Remy is going to mark this issue as 'RESOLVED WILL-NOT-FIX'. No, Pedro, this is intended behaviour. It's better than the Deployer in 5.0 because I wrote it. Anyone can write a different deployer implementation. If you don't like it, you can use a different platform. Anyone can use a different platform. Have a nice day. ??? what ??! --- Sorry about the humour Pedro -- I've had similar happen to me and can only laugh because I know what a ghastly suprise this is. What really makes this funny, is that all this amusement comes from Remy rewriting the Context/ Deployer implementation in 5.5 and coming over all defensive about its defects... marking all reported issues in this area as RESOLVED (they're not) WILL-NOT-FIX (he won't). Well, at least the second part is true. Go on, prove me right. Cheers, Thomas PS: Full and absolute good faith - any pointed comments have come *after* seeing defects & bug reports from others systematically being ignored & blown off. If people come to me with a problem in my code, I fix it first, ask about future/ related requirements, check against design cases and stub these for future coverage... sometimes 2 - 5 years ahead. Sure beats telling people to f** off.
