Dave Nebinger wrote:
> Okay, so if I have a servlet to deploy to an application container such as 
> tomcat, is there an eclass that I can use to inherit from?

I don't think so.

>
> Obviously the webapp eclass helps for straight apache-like deployments, but 
> it's not going to help much when deploying to tomcat.
> 

Well maybe the webapp setup can be configured or added the support for
tomcat too. It is just a matter of paths I think.

>
> I looked in /usr/portage/ebuild, but nothing jumped out at me...
> 

I don't think we have any servlets packaged in the tree at the moment.

>
> So how do I get my war file deployed?  Am I left to external tools such as ant 
> to manage that for me?
>

ant is a helper tool for building java software from sources, hopefully
no-one uses it for package management. I think at the moment people just
 do the management manually, but you need to ask people who actually use
tomcat in production.

> 
> How does such an entity fit within the portage world?
> 

If we start packaging servlets, then we of course need a setup for that,
but it is not something the java team is actively looking into. Feel
free to do your own development and we can then integrate it to the
official tree if we find it a valuable addition.

Regards,
Petteri Räty