[fedora-java] tomcat not expanding macros

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > 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>
> > --------------------------------------------------
> [snip]
> > 
> > I don't see anything in the tomcat docs that suggests that macro
> > expansion can be turned on or off.
> 
> Does Tomcat have macro expansion?  That looks like an Ant macro to me...

Yes, it does look like an Ant macro. Maybe they share the same macro
expansion code.

I installed a Sun JVM and Tomcat from Apache's web site on another
machine, and have had no problems with this. I moved the Tomcat tree
to another location, and it continued to work.

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