this is my third question.
With tomcat I have been able to setup many webapplications that use the
SAME directory for the webapplication but use different configuration.
is this possible with glassfish?
Let me explain what I have done..
I have a small webbaplication that several customers use. I would like
to be able to host this webapplication like this..
http://www.example.com/customer1
http://www.example.com/customer2
http://www.example.com/customer3
http://www.example.com/customer4
now IN tomcat, I can do that using the same webapplication directory and
then in my [TOMCAT-INSTALL-DIR]/conf/Catalina/example.com/ directory I
can setup Contxt configuration files
customer1.xml
customer2.xml
customer3.xml
customer4.xml
in these different context files I do stuff like this..
<Context docBase="/var/tomcat/shared/webapplication">
<Parameter name="ConfigurationPath"
value="/var/tomcat/config/[COMPANY-NAME]/" override="true"/>
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JNDIRealm"
connectionURL="ldap://localhost:389"
debug="99"
roleBase="ou=Roles,[COMPANY-DN]"
roleName="cn"
roleSearch="(uniqueMember={0})"
userPattern="uid={0},ou=People,[COMPANY-DN]"/>
</Context>
(the [] parts in the context file is not written like that in the real
files but is changed depending on customer..
This type of configuration means that IF I upate an file in
/var/tomcat/shared/webapplication (jsp/jar, etc) ALL my customers get
that change, for an administrative point this is much easier then having
to do the same change for all customers..
now, I could probably been able to do that with a war file and some
scripts, but I don't have that and I like to use an directory structure.
I think I read an comparison of tmcat and glassfish (v1 something of
glassfish) and I think it said that this was not possible, but glassfish
is now v2 and this might have changed.
so is this kind of configuration possible using glassfish v2 ?