[BIGTOP-417] webapps shipped by bigtop components should be using a system-provided Tomcat

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0, 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: general
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 24/Feb/12 00:57
• Updated: 21/Jun/13 23:55
• Resolved: 06/Mar/12 16:55

Description

We now have at least 2 different components that squirrel away private copies of Tomcat (Oozie and HTTPFS). The right approach is to setup different instances of the system Tomcat via CATALINA_BASE (still pointing at a common, system-wide CATALINA_HOME). More on how it works here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
http://willcode4beer.com/ware.jsp?set=tomcat_config