How to provide a context configuration for a web application in Tomcat?

Question

I have a web application that relies on some resources and parameters to be configured after it is installed, like a JDBC connection.

What I have come up with is pro

Answer 1

@n0rm1e: not sure if tomcat provides any sort of solution for you problem. But one possible solution can be:- create an ant script with following steps:

i) Check existence of .xml file in [engine-name]/[server-name] directory. If it exists, take a back up of this/rename it.

ii) copy your war file to tomcat webapps. Restart tomcat server.

iii) copy backup-ed configuration file back to [engine-name]/[server-name] directory