I have a web service app that has an xml file with Oracle connection properties i.e. DEVFOOBAR schema. I will create a war file of this and deploy to Tomcat on our test server – however we only have this one server but we want the ability to test the webservice against a few different schemas e.g.
- DEVFOOBAR
- TESTFOOBAR
- UATFOOBAR
- LIVETESTFOOBAR
Initial thoughts…
Ideally we don’t want to be digging about and changing the XML files in the depoloyed app on the server. I think we want 4 webservices all pointing to their own db schemas, so I was wondering what I have to do in order to achieve this.
Is it something to do with web.xml file, but then again I’m confused because if you have 4 webservices all doing the exact same thing, (except pointing to different databases), surely things would get confusing if a request comes in to the server for a particular url (e.g http:\testserver:8080\myresource) – how will Tomcat decide which web service should respond, and if they all respond that’s just crazy! It’s safe to say I’m a little confused here!
You could, as part of your build process, create 4 differently named WAR files, each with the relevant DB configuration for a particular schema.
Once deployed to Tomcat, each WAR will be accessed by http://testserver:8080/WAR_name, so you will not have the conflict you describe.