Configuring Web Clients

The following sections describe the Web client configuration parameters that you will usually want to specify. Configuration parameters are specified at three levels: application, WAR, and component. A number of security parameters can be applied at the WAR and component levels. For information on these security parameters, see Web-Tier Security (page 337).

Application-Level Configuration

Context Root

A context root is a name that gets mapped to the document root of a Web client. If your client’s context root is catalog, then the request URL

http://<host>:8000/catalog/index.html 

will retrieve the file index.html from the document root.

To specify the context root for Hello1App in deploytool,

1.
Select Hello1App ...

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