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Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:25:54 -0500
From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Leo,

On 12/31/13, 3:58 PM, Leo Donahue wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2013 3:15 AM, "Maarten van Hulsentop"
> <maarten@vanhulsentop.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We are using Tomcat to host a number of web applications as a
>> uniform solution. We trying to implement something that seems to
>> be an odd requirement, evh it is really a use case for us.
>> 
>> We would like to define a single [default] error page for all
>> web applications residing on this Tomcat instance. After some
>> experimentation and googling around, it seems that there is no
>> clear-cut solution for
> this.
>> I see a few options;
>> 
>> - Let the global conf/web.xml define error pages for all web
>> applications at once. However these are always relative to the
>> web application context, and require every web application to
>> pack the error pages again, which is
> a
>> duplicate of resources and defeats the DRY principle.
> 
> I asked a question similar to this a while back regarding JSF
> templates.
> 
> If you pick a location to share this resource among all web apps,
> then your web apps aren't self contained.
> 
> The solution is in your build / deploy process.

+1

- -chris
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