The trick is to use the deploy task rather than the install task, and
include the context.xml (make sure it's named context.xml) in the META-INF
directory inside the war file. Tomcat will find the context file, and add
the contents to the server.xml file. Then, use redeploy to deploy changes,
or undeploy to remove. Once you've got that all set up, it works remarkably
well.

Andrew

At 04:22 PM 1/21/2004, Matt Raible wrote:
>Is it possible to use the <install> ant task to deploy to a remote
>server? I would think so, but it
>seems that the Manager app of Tomcat tries to load the "context" file on
>the remote server...
>
>      <install url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
>            username="${tomcat.username}"
>            password="${tomcat.password}"
>            config="file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.name}.xml"
>            war="jar:file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.war}!/"/>
>
>Is there anyway to do this, i.e. packaging the context.xml in the JAR and
>telling the manager app
>to get it from there - or can I only deploy to localhost when I have a
>context.xml involved?
>
>On another note, is it possible to put all the ant task definitions in a
>file that can be referenced
>when - so all tasks can be declared at once. Cactus does this and it's a
>handy feature. I've
>added it to my project by doing the following.
>
>1. Created a tomcatTasks.properties file with the following contents:
>
>deploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask
>install=org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask
>list=org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask
>reload=org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask
>remove=org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask
>resources=org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask
>roles=org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask
>start=org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask
>stop=org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask
>undeploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask
>
>2. Define my tasks using:
>
>   <taskdef file="${ant-contrib.dir}/tomcatTasks.properties">
>      <classpath>
>         <pathelement path="${tomcat.home}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
>      </classpath>
>   </taskdef>
>
>This certainly cuts down on the size of my build.xml file by about 20 lines!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
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