As I prepared to commit Roland's patch to support resource links in the
XmlConfigurator, I realized that this was really just a special case of
federation. I have written up some notes here
http://wiki.apache.org/directory/NamingHome
that present an option that will get us most of the benefit of
federation without adding much complexity or code. I tried to include a
little background on how the tomcat-based context management works under
the covers so others can jump in a little more easily.
I would appreciate it if others could take a look and tear it up a bit /
offer better ideas on how to support Roland's use case as well as the
federation idea that Noel suggested. Thanks!
Phil
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