[Ashutosh Jindal]

I do not know whether this is a bug but when one starts the deployment of a project … the same cannot be cancelled midway .. now the files required to be deployed for the project are around 1 GB in size … onec the deplyment starts it takes around 7-8 minutes for it to be completed. Can we not cancel the deployment midway ?

Also is there a way through which the whole project directory is not actually copied into the tomcat/webapps folder ?

[Riyad Kalla]

now the files required to be deployed for the project are around 1 GB in size … onec the deplyment starts it takes around 7-8 minutes for it to be completed. Can we not cancel the deployment midway ?

Good lord, that is a big application. And no I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone ask for cancelling mid deployment. Are you deploying media files that could be made external to this app?

lso is there a way through which the whole project directory is not actually copied into the tomcat/webapps folder ?

Do you meant to a custom location, or just partially deployed? The answer to #1 is yes, to #2 no.

[Ashutosh Jindal]

I have got all the files in the following path :

G:/webappXYZ/defaultroot : This is where all the JSPs are as well as where the WEB-INF folder is
and all the source files are here : G:/webappXYZ/src

Now the size of the G:/webappXYZ/defaultroot is ever increasing since new files are created quite a lot. Basically this is a sitebuilder webapp which can have many users. So as the number of users increase so does the size of this folder. That’s how its is now at a whopping 1 GB.

What i would love is that all the files remain in this folder and are just referred to. Sort of a custom location. So how should i go about this. While deploying this project should I select ‘Custom Location’ and specify G:/webappXYZ/defaultroot as the location of deployment? Would this not cause a problem?

THis is the entry in the server.xml for this webapp context:

<Context path="/webappXYZ" reloadable="true" docBase="G:\webappXYZ\defaultroot" workDir="G:\webappXYZ\work\org\apache\jsp" >
    <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.SystemOutLogger" verbosity="4" timestamp="true"/>
    <Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.DevLoader" reloadable="true" debug="1"/> 
    <ResourceParams name="jdbc/postgres">
                              <parameter>
                                <name>factory</name>
                                <value>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>driverClassName</name>
                                <value>org.postgresql.Driver</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>url</name>
                                <value>jdbc:postgresql://192.168.23.67:5432/webappXYZ_3_2</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>username</name>
                                <value>XXXXXXXXX</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>password</name>
                                <value>XXXXXXXXX</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>maxActive</name>
                                <value>4</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>maxIdle</name>
                                <value>1</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>maxWait</name>
                                <value>-1</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                <name>removeAbandonedTimeout</name>
                                <value>2</value>
                              </parameter>
                    </ResourceParams>
    
</Context> 

What i do not understand is why are the files copied if the docbase is set the the webapp in G:\webappXYZ\defaulroot?

[Riyad Kalla]

morpheus,
Reading your context it looks like you pointed Tomcat straight at your Workspace dir (G:\webappXYZ\defaultroot), is this correct? If it is, then there is no need to create a deployment, there IS no deployment to create.

And yes, if you tried to deploy the project ontop of itself, bad things will happen, mostly because when you go to remove that deployment you will toast your project.

So do one of the following:

1) Keep working how you are working and forget about a deployment.

OR

2) Change the docBase back to the tomcat/webapps/webappXYZ dir, and setup an exploded deployment in MYEclipse, it will get copied out once and then from that point on, any time you make a change in the project, it will be synced with the server real-time, no need to recreate the deplioyment.

[Ashutosh Jindal]

THANKS RIYAD!

Thanks a zillion for making this clear. I thought that a deployment was always required. I removed the deployment in the tomcat/webapps dir as well as from ‘Add and Remove Project Deployments’. And things are working fine now 🙂

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