Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason, On 8/25/2010 4:06 PM, Jason Britton wrote: > We have a separate department > that is more marketing/static content than it is anything, they'll put > their own stuff up on the website that for the most part is not under > revision control Any

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-25 Thread Jason Britton
:) I got a good laugh out of your response Christopher and I appreciate you taking the time to guide a possibly astray developer but let me hopefully put your mind somewhat at ease in regards to our development practices/environment. Not claiming we have anything resembling a perfect process eith

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason, On 8/24/2010 2:38 PM, Jason Britton wrote: >> >> >> The short answer is: you can't separate the components of a webapp out >> into separate locations. >> >> > > Thanks for the response P. Understood and agreed as to the function and > purpose

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Britton
I'll put tomcat 7 on our dev environment and have a go at it.  I'm excited about the alias functionality, thanks so much for pointing it out Mark, from the 7.0 docs: "aliases" attribute of the context element: This attribute provides a list of external locations from which to load resources for t

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Thomas
On 24/08/2010 20:00, Jason Britton wrote: >> In Tomcat 7 you could use an alias. >> >> Mark >> >> > Definitely interested. Is there a time frame on when 7 will have a non-beta > release? Thanks for the heads up. The more people that test it and report problems, the sooner it will be out of beta.

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Britton
> In Tomcat 7 you could use an alias. > > Mark > > Definitely interested. Is there a time frame on when 7 will have a non-beta release? Thanks for the heads up. Jason

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Britton
> > > The short answer is: you can't separate the components of a webapp out > into separate locations. > > Thanks for the response P. Understood and agreed as to the function and purpose of .war file. The reasoning for the separation is that in our current environment we have users from 3 or so

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Thomas
On 24/08/2010 18:14, Jason Britton wrote: > I'm trying to configure a tomcat context that I could deploy the classes, > libs, web.xml using a .war file but the actual jsp's, html, web content > would not be packed up in the .war file and would live in a directory > outside of the exploded war direc

Re: separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Pid
On 24/08/2010 18:14, Jason Britton wrote: > I'm trying to configure a tomcat context that I could deploy the classes, > libs, web.xml using a .war file but the actual jsp's, html, web content > would not be packed up in the .war file and would live in a directory > outside of the exploded war direc

separating deployment of classes/lib/config from web content (jsp's/html)

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Britton
I'm trying to configure a tomcat context that I could deploy the classes, libs, web.xml using a .war file but the actual jsp's, html, web content would not be packed up in the .war file and would live in a directory outside of the exploded war directory. I need to be able to redeploy my classes/li