[fedora-java] tomcat not expanding macros

[Charles Curley]

I have tomcat5-5.0.30-5jpp_6fc on FC4 as updated. My client has sent
me a war package, foo.war, to install & document. I can deploy it via
tomcat's manager.

One problem I hit is that the web.xml file contains a macro, used
several places, e.g:

--------------------------------------------------
	    <param-value>${catalina.home}/webapps/foo</param-value>
--------------------------------------------------

It apears it is not being expanded, so that the log fle complains like
so:

--------------------------------------------------
ERROR: License Manager Error: ${catalina.home}/webapps/FOO/WEB-INF/lib/foo.jar (No such file or directory)
ERROR: License Manager Error: ${catalina.home}/webapps/FOO/WEB-INF/lib/foo.jar (No such file or directory)
--------------------------------------------------

When I globally search and replace the correct expansion of the macro
into web.xml, I get other problems but not that one, leading me to
think that the problem is lack of macro expansion.

I don't see anything in the tomcat docs that suggests that macro
expansion can be turned on or off.

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