Tomcat gurus, please help !!!
Development Env. :
OS: Window NT 4.0 SP6
Web Server: Tomcat 4.1.12
Sun JDK 1.3.1
IDE : Eclipse 2.1
Deployment/Testing/Prod Env:
OS: Sun Solaris 2.8
Web Server: Weblogic 5.1 SP 12
Sun JDK 1.3.1 IDE : N/A
Confession: New to Tomcat world.
Note: Reason why I'm using Tomcat for development though I can use Weblogic, Eclipse IDE with Tomcat plugin provides debuging functionality, thus the problem. I have an enterprise application being built and kind of stepped into a problem. I have a Servlet that marshals all the calls and process them through java beans ( about 50+ ) and content displayed through JSPs.
Here is the directory structure,
/AppContext
| +- src
| +- com.xyz.wfservices
+- jsp
main.jsp
+- WEB-INF
|
+ classes
+ com.xyz.wfservices ( compiled classes )
For Weblogic: It has 2 parameters to specify where the compiled code is and where the docs are,
=> weblogic.httpd.servlet.classpath=c:/wfservices/WEB-INF/classes
=> weblogic.httpd.documentRoot= c:/wfservices/src/html
and to register instance,
weblogic.httpd.register.WfServices=com.xyz.wfservices.WfSvcsController
weblogic.httpd.initArgs.WfServices=\
main.properties=c:/wfservices/src/properties/wfservices.properties
But, I looked at Tomcat it is quite different.. it has <Context path="/wfs" docBase="L:\app_services\wfservices" workDir="L:\app_services\wfservices\work" /> Servlet def in web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>WfServices</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.xyz.wfservices.WfSvcsController</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>main.properties</param-name>
<param-value>c:\wfservices\properties\config.properties</param-value>
</init-param>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>WfServices</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/WfServices</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</servlet>
Probem: Accessing JSP/Html ... documents. weblogic accessing / calling jsp ..
rd = req.getRequestDispatcher("/main.jsp"); //req is HttpRequest
if (rd != null)
rd.forward(req, resp);
The same does not work under Tomcat because it can find files relative to the context, thus it fails. I have to change the code like below to make it work.
rd = req.getRequestDispatcher("/src/jsp/main.jsp");
if (rd != null)
rd.forward(req, resp);
It is a nightmare now to maintain two different environments and more over changing all the references and and its internal references is not feasible. The question is, is there a way to configure docBase in tomcat so that I won't need a code change.
Any help or inputs are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Meher