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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:43:14 +0200
From: Henri Gomez <hgomez@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Important requirement : Re: [next] What's next ?
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Remy Maucherat a �crit :

> Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> Henri Gomez wrote:
>>
>>> Remy Maucherat a �crit :
>>>
>>>> Henri Gomez wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No reply for this request ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I assume I could start to work on settings the currentWorking
>>>>> dir at web.xml dir location at web.xml parsing time ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I like basing the resolution on the host appBase a lot more.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well it will be problematic for all TC 3.2/3.3 users since the
>>> location was the web.xml (which seems more realist).
>>>
>>> Let me explain :
>>>
>>> If you have a large and segmented web application, you won't put
>>> all the settings in the same web.xml.
>>>
>>> So you're using entities in web.xml to load parts of the applications
>>> from files present in WEB-INF, whatever webapp location could be.
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> <!ENTITY ap_part1         SYSTEM "app_part1.xml">
>>> <!ENTITY ap_part2    SYSTEM "app_part2.xml">
>>> <!ENTITY ap_part3    SYSTEM "app_part3.xml">
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> &ap_part1;
>>> &ap_part2;
>>> &ap_part3;
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> With a load base relative to app base you break such 'natural'
>>> behaviour.
>>>
>>> Also consider that you could have many webapps, in many differents
>>> locations (think ISP/ASP), which didn't have to know the location of
>>> the appBase.
>>>
>>> If you want we could make it Context optional but the choice should be
>>> present to allow sites using TC 3.2/3.3 to switch more easily to 5.0...
>>>
>>
>> Henri, this issue is only related to loading of ENTITY's from web.xml?
>>
>> Doesn't the XML parser handle resolving those, and can't you use 
>> references
>> relative to the directory the web.xml is in?
> 
> 
> I think I have misunderstood stuff. It is ok to base resolution on the 
> webapp docBase (but not on the server home directory).
> 
> As Glenn says, it seems more logical to base it on the location of web.xml.

Allelouia, we agree ;)

The base should be the location of web.xml (la prochaine fois j'envoie 
un mail en fran�ais :---)


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