I have an application installed at c:\speechapps\Application_1 containing a META-INF with context.xml. In the context.xml I have reloadable="false" antiJarLocking="true" and antiResourceLocking="true" alongiwth the standard docBase and path. No other entries are present. If I use the manager interface I can install the application and it works fine. If I then shutdown tomcat gracefully, the application is completely deleted from the file system. The context from the /conf/Catalina/localhost is not deleted. On start of tomcat the application is not loaded (since it has been deleted from the file system). If I use the antiResourceLocking=true in the webapps directory it does not delete the application content only when used outside of webapps. To work around this I removed the antiResourceLocking from the context.xml. This seems to resolve the issue for now. This may be a good addition to the docs somewhere.
You're right, this should be in the docs somewhere. I've added a bold-type warning to the antiResourceLocking configuration documentation.