Include another xml file in web.xml

Question

I was able to use XML Entity to include another xml file in web.xml for older servlet specifications, i.e.:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY my-web SYSTEM "my-web.xml">
]>
<web-app>
  &my-web;
</web-app>This allows me to share my-web.xml among various web applications.
How do I achieve the same thing for servlet specification 2.5, which does not have a DTD but rather an XSD?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
  xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
  id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">I am using Glassfish V2UR1. I know about $domain-dir/config/default-web.xml, but for reasons I won't get into I cannot put things in there.

Answer 1

Hi Maksim. I understood that. It's just that I would prefer some method that doesn't require the developers to do something like extracting a file from the EAR file, changing the file and then putting it back in. As you probably know, some developers could handle it and some will most certainly make mistakes.
When they do they come to my group and say "my app doesn't work" and then we have to spend time figuring out why.
Plus, once the developers get used to doing things the automated way they're going to have a hard time remembering to do a manual step each time they do a build.
I have heard that there may be some way to do something similar to this on Visual Administrator. I'm going to investigate that too.
Thanks!
David.