Workshop 10.1 not deploying custom context.xml

Question

I have a web project that was converted from Workshop 3.3. The project has a context.xml file in WebContent/META-INF that contains a datasource.
This setup was working fine with Workshop 3.3, however for some reason Workshop 10.1 is not merging the file into server.xml (Looked at $WORKSPACE\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\conf\server.xml)
The old workspace from 3.3 shows the information merged into the file.
No modifications to the project other than converting to 10.1 have been made. I've tried marking the context.xml as read-only as well and that did not help.
Any ideas or suggestions?

Answer 1

I just tried the following steps and it is working for me.
- Create a new struts project
- create a new devloader_context.xml under WebContent/META-INF/
contents:
<Context docBase="test" path="/test" reloadable="true" source="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.server:test">
<Resource name="jdbc/TestDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
username="javauser" password="javadude" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/javatest?autoReconnect=true"/>
</Context>
- Save & mark the file readonly
- create a new Tomcat 5.5.x (5.5.23) configuration
- add the project to tomcat and start the server
- The contents of devloader_context.xml were merged into server.xml file
verified @ workspaces\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\conf