Is it considered a good/bad practice to configure tomcat for deploying certain apps?
- by Roman
Disclaimer: I've never used technique which is described below. That's why there may occur some mistakes or misunderstandings in its description.
I heard that some teams (developers) use 'pre-configured' tomcat. As I understand they add different jars to tomcat \lib folder and do something else.
Once I've read something about recompilation (or reassembly?) of tomcat for certain needs.
Just yesterday I heard a dialog where one developer sayd that his team-mates were not able to deploy the project until he would give them configured tomcat version.
So, I wonder, what is it all about and why do they do it? What benefits can they gain from that?