Deploy on Tomcat Startup
Until now, I have been deploying and re-deploying the 'gersboweb' application manually. Today, I decided to figure out how I could make Tomcat deploy the application, when the Tomcat service was started. The answer was a small Context descriptor.
<!–Context fragment for deploying gersboweb–>
<Context path="/gersboweb" docBase="$PATH_TO_APP-DIR/WAR"
debug="0″ privileged="true"></Context>
<Context path="/gersboweb" docBase="$PATH_TO_APP-DIR/WAR"
debug="0″ privileged="true"></Context>
I named the file 'gersboweb.xml' and placed it in '$CATALINA_HOME/webapps'. When I restarted the Tomcat service, the application was deployed - neat!
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