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Asked: 2026-05-19T02:18:43+00:00

(Tomcat version 5.5, in case it matters.) I have a library in one of

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(Tomcat version 5.5, in case it matters.)

I have a library in one of my web applications that needs to be configured with a machine-specific license before use. I don’t want to put this library in shared/lib because at some point I may want to run multiple web applications with different versions of the library.

Right now the .jar files are stored in WEB-INF/lib. Thus, when I build the .war file and upload it to the server, the .jar file would still be the one bound to my PC. I would like to put a bash script somewhere in the webapp that Tomcat would automatically run when deploying the .war file – this script would then run the configuration script and bind the server’s license file to the .jar. Is this possible? Is there a nicer way of doing what I want?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could create a ServletContextListener to do that in the contextInitialized() method. And from that listener you can run the “configuration script” directly, no other script required.

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