Deploy overridden web.xml to packed alfresco.war

[matt_thomas]

Hi

I am customising my application by adding new Servlets for auditing and need to deploy my modified web.xml file to the alfresco.war. I was wondering, is there a better way to do this than:

1)build alfresco.war
2) start tomcat to unpack alfresco.war
3) stop tomcat
4) copy web.xml into webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/
5) start tomcat

each and every time I need to deploy a code change.

This process is frustrating and time consuming in development.

I tried zipping up the unzipped tomcat directory, renaming as war and using that as the alfresco.war, but this doesn't work


I tried creating a mapping in file-mapping.properties to copy the contents of a local WEB-INF directory, but that totally screwed things up.

/config=/WEB-INF/classes
/lib=/WEB-INF/lib
/licenses=/WEB-INF/licenses
/jsp=/jsp
/css=/css
/images=/images
/scripts=/scripts
/WEB-INF=/WEB-INF

How do people normally modify and deploy the web.xml file?

Many thanks

Matt

[zaizi]

So if you have to do it, check the "package-amp" ant task in your build.xml to ensure that the web.xml is included in the amp file during the build process. The file-mapping.properties is used when the amp file is installed.

[matt_thomas]

Thanks. That sorted it out!!