external web.xml

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/20/13 4:42 PM, "Liam Hoekenga" <liamr at umich.edu> wrote:

>What it appears to be doing is using conf/web.xml when it builds the
>WAR file.  My changed one ended up in idp.war/WEB-INF/web.xml

That's all it can do.

>I had hoped that it would use the copy in conf/web.xml as a live
>configuration file.

Even if restarting servlet contexts was reliable/safe, which it's not,
containers don't as a rule have any way to reference material outside of a
warfile or unpacked war tree for anything they rely on themselves, and
WEB-INF/web.xml is a hardwired part of how it all works.

-- Scott