tomcat redeployment - options

[San Muthu]

Hi,

I have sample.war deployed and running in tomcat. I have some contents added to webapps/sample/data. When i redeploy(auto) any new war i do not want to overwrite this folder (data). is it possible with tomcat?

[Tim McGuire]

Santhi Muthusamy wrote:Hi,

I have sample.war deployed and running in tomcat. I have some contents added to webapps/sample/data. When i redeploy(auto) any new war i do not want to overwrite this folder (data). is it possible with tomcat?

application data should be in a directory on the same level as webapps so that it is not erased when you redeploy your app.

[San Muthu]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

The project code seems to be legacy code.. So i did not want touch anything there. Is there any way in tomcat to achieve this?

[Tim Holloway]

This is reason #2 why you should never attempt to write data to your WAR.

Reason #1 is that in a pure J2EE implementation, the WAR is a ZIP file and attempting to open and write it as a file won't work.