Tomcat cluster farm deployer attribute "watchDir"
deployment, tomcat
Solution
Here some knowledge about it : - Deployer must be declared inside a section
watchDir is the directory where you can put your delivery. The deployment process will start from here
deployDir is the directory where your application will be deployed (most probably webapps/ )
and tempDir is the directory used by the server while the deployment is underway.
FarmWarDeployer is the only deployer implementation that I know. If you wish to extend this one, you can probably set your own implementation
WatchEnabled should be set to true on your master node and false on other nodes. The application will be deployed from the master to the other nodes.
Best regards, Cyril
Problem
I was looking at the documentation of Tomcat 7, to understand how the clusters work. The documentation talks about a Deployer tag: ``` <Deployer className="org.apache.catalina.ha.deploy.FarmWarDeployer" tempDir="/tmp/war-temp/" deployDir="/tmp/war-deploy/" watchDir="/tmp/war-listen/" watchEnabled="false"/> ``` But the documentation about it is very poor: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/cluster-deployer.html I found something in the javadocs of the class http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/catalina/ha/deploy/FarmWarDeployer.html What I can't find is what is the attribute watchEnabled?