Greetings.

Someone in the turbine-users list suggested I post this message here:

Could someone please explain to me the correct way to configure Tomcat to use several Turbine web-app's that are shared between each other.

For example, I have web-app's A, B & C.

A - contains velocity stuff and a Turbine service I created B - contains another Turbine service I created C - contains legacy jsp pages and acts as front end to A & B

I know it looks like I've answer my own questions below but please read it all the way through if you are looking to help me because I think my answers will help shed light on my confusion.

Here are my specific questions:

1. Where should the Turbine related JAR's be stored in the Tomcat directory structure? In \tomcat\lib or each respective \webapp\web-inf\lib directory? I believe it should be the former for 2 reasons. First it's cleaner than having the JAR's duplicated. Second and most important because the runtime will create multiple instances of the TurbineServices singleton thus not allowing web-app C to locate the services in A & B.

2. Should the services I've created in web-app's A & B be moved out of the web-app into a shared location in the Tomcat directory? Again I believe the answer is yes because web-app C needs to be able to resolve the class names for the services in A & B.

3. Finally the question I don't have the answer for. If my answers are correct for questions 1 & 2, how do I configure Tomcat to only use 1 TurbineResources.properties file. For example, could I drop it into the tomcat\conf directory and have it init all my services from there? If so, what XML file do I change and what should I put in it? Right now web-app's A & B each have their own unique TR.Prop files in their respective \web-inf\conf directories and all of the settings are the same. Then at the end of the TR.prop file I use include=A.properties to specify specific variables for service A and I also do the same thing for web-app B changing the include=B.properties accordingly. The bottom line is there a more elegant way to do this?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Matt