[SOLVED] Using the context-root from glassfish-web.xml in GlassFish 3

Using the context-root from glassfish-web.xml in GlassFish 3

We recently switched to Glassfish 3.1.2.2 and have several Web-Applications packaged as war files. At times the desired context-root for these applications differs from the filename.

Back when we used Weblogic we achieved this by declaring the context-root in the weblogic.xml like this

<context-root>path/to/our/App</context-root>

We noticed that the same Tag exists in the glassfish-web.xml. But no matter what we define there, the server always determines the filename as the context-root.

Now we find the option --contextroot in the asadmin utility that would allow us to overwrite the filename at deploy time, but we'd prefer to do define it directly in the archive itself so that whoever will deploy it in the end won't need to know the desired contex-root.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Solution

Normally this should work with a glassfish-web.xml looking like this:

<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC 
    "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN"
    "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app>
    <context-root>/path/to/App</context-root>
</glassfish-web-app>

But here it looks like you need a file called sun-web.xml for your task.

Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC 
     "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.0 Servlet 3.0//EN"   
     "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_3_0-0.dtd">
<sun-web-app error-url="">
    <context-root>/path/to/our/App</context-root>
</sun-web-app>