Deploy tomcat webapp with different web.xml

Question

Is there a way of deploying a tomcat webapp with different web.xml (different name and context)?.

The problem:

I have a web.xml which i constantly have to modify (comment out and uncomment) stuff as i develop things - and this makes it a little annoying. Want i want to have is lets say two files:

web.xml
web-dev.xml

And I want my tomcat on my local machine to use web-dev.xml. Ofcouse for production release (i.e. Hosted server Tomcat will be using normal web.xml - web-dev.xml won't even be published). Its just for the development.

Any ideas where i can specify within tomcat to use web-dev.xml instead of web.xml ?

Thanks

Are you using maven ? Use maven profiles, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3298763/maven-customize-web-xml-of-web-app-project. — Humberto Pinheiro, May 11 '16 at 17:10
@HumbertoPinheiro I do use maven, but i do not want this to be maven specific solution. — Maciej Cygan, May 11 '16 at 19:16
@MaciejCygan, guess the only way to do this using Maven, Tomcat won't consider the different ones from `web.xml`. — WildDev, Jun 28 '16 at 06:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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Similarly to @HumbertoPinheiro, I think Maven profiles are a way to go.

Alternatively, this seems like a possible solution (Reference link : Specify a custom web.xml to an embedded tomcat):

Context webContext = tomcat.addWebapp("/yourContextPath", "/web/app/docroot/");
webContext.getServletContext().setAttribute(Globals.ALT_DD_ATTR, "/path/to/custom/web.xml");

Tested on Tomcat 7.0.42.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Jun 28 '16 at 00:27

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