Hi guys, Just tested with Tomcat 9.0.10 embed and it seems the requirement is a base directory is now arbitrary.
To be concrete I overrided org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat#initBaseDir to not mkdir the folder if it doesn't exist and I ran several apps (including meecrowave/cdi based ones) without any issue. Is it possible to relax this constraint? I envision it as a toggle settable on Tomcat instance (tomcat.setRequiresDirectories(false)). If set it to false it would disable the mkdir and probably disable the webapp extractions. Guess spring boot can benefit from it as well. Wdyt? Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance>
