perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Uros Juvan wrote:
> > It looks reasonable to me. I just have to check if Tomcat is shipped 
> > with classes, which already implement some kind of web.xml handling, 
> > which I am almost sure it does. I then need to evaluate if it seems 
> > reasonable potentially adding another Tomcat/Servlet jar file to our 
> > jar-repository, or does it seem easier to XML parse web.xml by myself 
> > and insert new <listener> if necessary.
>
> Answering my own mail :)
> Tomcat uses org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig class located 
> inside server/lib/catalina.jar library to parse web.xml. Internally it 
> looks like it uses SAX parser, but also some kind of validator. I'm 
> not sure whether it would be reasonable to use this solution, since it 
> is too specific container-centric. I think it would be better writing 
> our own class, without validation.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Maciej, Loukik, Roman, ... ?

You could create new web.xml file with the same content plus new 
listener, put it in $PERFSONAR/conf/ directory as web-axis-1.4.xml, and 
alter deploy action to copy web-axis.xml file to 
$TOMCAT/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/ as web.xml.


Roman

> Regards,