http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Loading-standard-web-application-tp4705628p4705755.html
Just to reiterate that allowing standard web application now should not impede efforts towards building OFBiz WAR later, unless there are plans to remove CatalinaContainer entirely. Thank you.
> Hi James,
>
> thanks for your design proposal and implementation: I have reviewed your
> patch in Jira and it looks good to me.
> As mentioned by Taher, in the future we may try to move away from the OFBiz
> container driven startup process in order to make OFBiz more easily
> deployable in an application server; deploying application like you have
> described will be even easier if we will succeed.
> In the meantime, since it will take time and your approach is simple and
> effective, I think that we could commit your work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:35 AM, James Yong <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking into allowing OFBiz to load standard web application where
> > there is no controller.xml and the jar files residing in web-inf/lib folder.
> >
> > Proposing to add an attribute named 'type' to the 'webapp' tag at
> > ofbiz-component.xml, i.e.
> >
> > <webapp name="myapp"
> > type="standard" <--------------- new proposed attribute
> > title="Myapp"
> > server="myapp-server"
> > location="webapp/myapp"
> > mount-point="/myapp"/>
> >
> > This new attribute will help to differentiate standard web applications
> > from those in OFBiz, and allows Catalina Container to load them accordingly.
> > When type="standard", will load as standard web application.
> > When type is empty, load according to OFBiz way.
> >
> > Any feedback is welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> > James Yong
> >
> >
>