Problem with WorkShop 3.2 when lanching tomcat

Question

hi!I met a problem with debugging projects in WorkShop.
I'm using tomcat 5.5.17 in WorkShop studio 3.2.All my server configurations are default!When debugging,I just right clicked on the project and chose "debug on server",then tomcat lanched.During that time,something weird happened.I found my project was deployed twice,and I also found that one was deployed as context "dms"(project's directory name),another as context "web"(project's real context).
I tried all means to solve this problem.Finally I got one.I set two attributes of host tag to false from server.xml,deployOnStartup and autoDeploy.It works.But I don't think it is the best way.so my questions is: is this a workshop deploy bug?
I guess it is.This is what I found from tomcat document.I think it may help us to slove this problem.
"When using automatic deployment, the docBase defined by an XML Context file should be outside of the appBase directory. If this is not the case difficulties may be experienced deploying the web application or the application may be deployed twice.
Finally, note that if you are defining contexts explicitly, you should probably turn off automatic application deployment. Otherwise, your context will be deployed twice each, and that may cause problems for your app. "
Maybe workshop should use the web context name as project directory name when deploying and do not define the context explicitly in server.xml.

Answer 1

hi, I just do the same thing as you do!The problem still exists!
if you go to Tomcat Web Application Manager page and have a look at the applications you deployed. You will find your project is deployed twice with two different context(context root and project directory name as context root).
note:if you don't have access to the manager page,you can try the following:
-edit the settings for the server
-find 'Run modules directly from the workspace(do not modify the Tomcat installation)' setting and uncheck the checkbox before it
-then save your changes.
Doing this you can deploy your project directly to the appbase of your tomcat server directory.Then you will have access to the manager page with the url "http://localhost:8080/manager/html".
Also you may take a closer look at the output of your workshop console,you will find some output messages duplicated.
This problem originally starts from workshop 3.1.There is no such issue before 3.0 and lower versions.
Workshop studio was once an fatastic tool.But after integrated with WTP things have been changed.The biggest trouble is it costs too much memory.and some import features such as AJAX support,javascript debugger aren't available to us.I feel a little disappointed.:(
Hope you guys will fix those defects.
Regards!