Chapter 8 Managing Applications
Tomcat 6 includes a web application which supports the following features:
- Deploy a new web application from the uploaded contents of a WAR file.
- Deploy a new web application from the server file system on a specified context path.
- List the currently deployed web applications and current active sessions.
- Reload an existing web application to reflect changes in the contents of
/WEB-INF/ classes or /WEB-INF/lib.
- List the OS and JVM property values.
- List the available global JNDI resources, for use in deployment tools that are preparing
elements nested in a deployment description.
- List the available security roles defined in the user database.
- Start a stopped application.
- Stop an existing application.
- Undeploy a deployed web application and delete its document
To add an instance of the manager web application Context to a new host, install the manager.xml context configuration file in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname] folder.
Select from the following methods on using the Manager web application:
- Use the application with a user interface in your browser.
- Use a minimal version which utilizes HTTP requests only.
- Use a convenient set of task definitions for the Ant build tool.