Re: [platform-help-dev] Using the Tomcat engine to serve other informati

[Dorian Birsan <birsan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Check the javadoc for org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.
This is the class we use in our wrapper
to launch tomcat, register and start webapps.

Also, take a look at how we implemplemented
WebappManager class and follow the steps to implement your own registration
of webapps that sit outside plugins. It helps if you put some breakpoints
and use the debbuger to step through. Start with a breakpoint in WebappManager.start().

-Dorian

Probir Mukerjee <probir_mukerjee@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Dorian, 

Thanks for your reply.   

I am not sure where to start for changing the code so that the Tomcat engine
would be able to serve html documents and run servlets and Jsps from outside
the Eclipse framework.  Could you direct me to some documentation
that could help me understand this better?

Thank you,
Probir K Mukerjee

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A couple of more comments on my previous note: if you want to depend on
internal classes that may or may not exist (someone could actually replace
tomcat), you can get a handle to the TomcatAppServer class and use its
start() method with the appropriate parameters (you just need to pass a
webapp name, an arbitrary location, and, optionally, a class loader).

-Dorian

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Hi, 

Is it possible to configure the tomcat engine that is shipped with Eclipse
to serve other information that may not be part of Eclipse?

Is there a way to configure it, so that it can serve other servlets and
other html documents which are not stored in any Eclipse plugin?

If it is possible, could you tell me how that can be done?

Thank you,
Probir