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It is always frustrating if you have to munge a server.xml in Tomcat, or the equivilent in other servers. At that point, your nice deployable .war file requires a README that says "oh, and make sure your server.xml is setup like this...".

At least now we have a feature that lets us put context information in the war file. I didn't know that Tomcat supported this until recently:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
  <Resource
    auth="Container"
    description="DB Connection"
    name="jdbc/ebackbay"
    type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    password=""
    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
    maxIdle="2"
    maxWait="5000"
    validationQuery="select * from testdata;"
    username="root"
    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/ebackbay"
    maxActive="4"/>
  <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
  <WatchedResource>META-INF/context.xml</WatchedResource>
</Context>