Tomcat context management

Question

The tomcat 6.0 document at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html says:

Only if a context file does not exist for the application in

Answer 1

If you want to avoid overwriting of 'context.xml', you could go to Tomcat Manager url and then uninstall the previous app and install the new war/ear. This way you have more control on the installation process.