Make per-context JNDI variable available to Tomcat in Eclipse

Question

I\'m using Tomcat 8.5.6 inside Eclipse 4.6.1. I have my web-app project/context foo, which has a JAX-RS (using RESTEasy 3.1.0.CR3) endpoint of bar,

Answer 1

Your link to Markus' answer on https://stackoverflow.com/a/22380248/1794485 allowed me to get this working, or at least as described in his workaround. But the remaining problem to solve was ordering.

As he said, you can workaround this by having a local copy of the META-INF/context.xml somewhere else, and adding this folder to the Deployment Assembly in the project properties of the Eclipse project.

This didn't pick up for me initially though. It looks like that while the Deployment Assembly in the properties shows as sorted by name, in fact it has an order like any other path. When I then removed the src/main/webapp entry (so the one containing the normal META-INF/context.xml) and added it back in, this effectively moved it down the pecking order. The next Tomcat deploy and startup in Eclipse finally put my preferred copy of META-INF/context.xml in .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\myapp\META-INF

If in doubt about the true sequence of that Deployment Assembly path, have a look under your Eclipse project on the file system - at .settings\org.eclipse.wst.common.component.