Deploying JSC projects in Tomcat

Question

If we deploy JSC projects in Tomcat we have to access the server.xml and tomcat-install-directory/shared/lib. Many web hosting providers do not allow access to these. This makes JSC project deployment in Tomcat very challenging.
Are there sny alternative ways to deploy JSC projects without accessing Tomcat locations (server.xml and shared/lib folder) except the webapps folder. For example, can I put the jstl.jar and standard.jar someware inside my JSC project? Can I do some changes in my web.xml instead of modifying server.xml?
Any advice is very much appreciated.
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You can get around the server.xml changes. You will have to create a context.xml
look at
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http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/deployer-howto.html#Context%20descriptors
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for instance. I believe that context.xml has to go into <webapp>/META-INF directory. But I did not find a reference right now.
The only question I have, would be if Tomcat would share DataSources from different webapps when they are configured in the context.xml, instead of the global context.
I hope that helps a bit.
Thanks,
-- Marco