Using the context-root from glassfish-web.xml in GlassFish 3

Question

We recently switched to Glassfish 3.1.2.2 and have several Web-Applications packaged as war files. At times the desired context-root for these applications differs from the

Answer 1

Normally this should work with a glassfish-web.xml looking like this:

<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC 
    "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN"
    "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app>
    <context-root>/path/to/App</context-root>
</glassfish-web-app>

But here it looks like you need a file called sun-web.xml for your task.

Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC 
     "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.0 Servlet 3.0//EN"   
     "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_3_0-0.dtd">
<sun-web-app error-url="">
    <context-root>/path/to/our/App</context-root>
</sun-web-app>

Answer 2

In GlassFish 3 and GlassFish 4 the configuration of a web application is done via glassfish-web.xml. In your case the desired configuration file would look like this:

<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC 
    "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN"
    "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app>
    <context-root>/path/to/our/App</context-root>
</glassfish-web-app>

You can find further details in section GlassFish Server Deployment Descriptor Files of Oracle GlassFish Server Application Deployment Guide. A online version of this document can be found at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2417/.