Description Mike Youngstrom 2011-04-11 22:29:43 EDT

Tomcat 6 Server setting "Publish module contexts to separate XML files" silently fails when there is a '/' in the context root.  It appears to just automatically fall back to using the server.xml.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a Tomcat 6 Server
2. Open server properties page and check "Publish module contexts..." box.
3. Create a new Dyamic Web Project
4. Right click->Properties->Web Project Settings
5. Set the Context root: to something with a '/' like "test/dude".
6. Deploy the dynamic web project to the server.
7. Examine the server.xml in the workspace's metadata directory: ".metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\conf\server.xml"
8. Note the <Context/> element in the server.xml.
9. Note the lack of an xml file in conf/Catalina/localhost

Handling a '/' in a Tomcat context root is a little tricky.  The key is that you need to name the .war file or in this case the context.xml file correctly replacing all '/' with '#'.

Mike