xml out of war-file

[jean-francois2]

Hi everybody

I was wondering if some can tell me how to put the web.xml out of the war-file. but still using the web.xml

My problem is that I have to make 30 different war-files just because my web.xml is different. So it would be nice if I could make 1 war-file and 30 different web.xml and not putting them into the WEB-INF/web.xml.

Is there a solution that i can use the web.xml en the war-file separated?

Thx for your help

[norman.richards]

You can specify an alt-dd on your application.xml, but that just shifts the replacement burden one deployment descriptor higher.

If you deploy in exploded format, swapping out web.xml files is easy.

[jean-francois2]

thx for your help !!!

Now i'm a lot futher.

[briankardell]

This is actually sort of a common problem... But: Do you really need 50 different web.xml's - and if so - why? Usually the solution to this problem, in my experience, is that just because something can be set up with web.xml doesn't always mean that that is the only - or best way to accomplish.

[wtff]

I aggree that the alt-dd mechanism is a fantastic featute. It is of big value in certain situations. For example when an application needs to be deployed to several machines, each time with a different configuration or profile.

My problem is that I believe JBoss is ignoring the alt-dd element. I had run tests with previous versions of jboss and also checked the 4.0.2 codebase. The J2eeModuleMetaData class parses the alt-dd element and returns the url configured within this element via a method called getAlternativeDD().
This method is not being invoked by any other jboss class.

I read a wiki doc which hinted that JBoss 5 will support alt-dd elements via it's virtual filesystem approach.

Are there any plans to add support for the alt-dd element to the 4.x branch?

This is an awefully usefull feature and I'm missing it a lot in Jboss. ;)

Thanks
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