I have a web application that runs on Tomcat 4.1.29/Oracle 9i. I have 40 instances of this application running. Each instance connects to a different database and has its own security realm, so I have a context.xml and an unpacked directory for each instance. A client can get to their instance by navigating to http://server/instance. To make things more managable, I changed the installation to have 40 context.xmls pointing to just one unpacked directory (In each context.xml, I set the docBase attribute to the same directory). When we release a new version (which we do about once a week); instead of precompiling the JSPs in the application 40 times, it just precompiles once. (The application has about 250 JSPs). This seems to work great, but I don't know how "safe" this is. Does this configuration confuse the Jasper Page Compiler at all? Does this confuse the Class Loaders? Will this cause any unforeseen problems? Thanks for any insite, - Chris
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