MyUW root webapp and Tomcat error valve
There are two modules here: a webapp to serve as the root web application context and plugin to customize Tomcat's error handling.
MyUW root webapp
This is a small webapp to serve as the root, default servlet application in MyUW Tomcat. It contains the error pages to fall back upon when another servlet context does not handle the request.
Development of the root webapp
From the root directory, run npm start
. The web app will run at
http://localhost:8080 and will show the 404 page by
default.
MyUW Tomcat error valve
Customizes Tomcat to use the error pages in the custom root webapp.
Releasing
The root webapp and the valve are versioned and released together.
Release using the myuw-root-RELEASE Jenkins job.
This will publish a release for whatever snapshot version the pom.xml indicates. (So, if the root pom.xml indicates 1.4.2-SNAPSHOT, the Jenkins job will release 1.4.2).
After releasing, manually update the pom.xml
files (plural) to build the new SNAPSHOT version.
(So, if you release 1.4.2, update to now build 1.4.3-SNAPSHOT or 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT or 2.0.0-SNAPASHOT depending upon what kinds of changes you expect to make next.)
When you release a new version of this project, you'll publish both a root webapp .war and a Tomcat error valve .jar.
For these to be actually used in MyUW, update the tier-specific ears to reference the new root webapp version, and update the Tomcat container to use the new valve version.