The last release downloable in war format was the 4.7.1. I've been trying to turn the 5.3.0 release into a war since the project i'm working in needs it that way and i want to upgrade the exist version. Hopefully someone out there is working on something similar or has already achieved this modification succesfully and could help me a little. Thank you in advance.

CodePudding user response：

This question was asked on the exist-open mailing list. Quoting from the thread:

Question:

Is it still possible at all to craft WAR build for eXist-5 (perhaps in an unofficial community-driven effort), or is that technically just impossible?

Answer:

Yes it is possible using Maven and some plugins. You could add an additioal module to eXist-db's Multi-module Maven build which has a war . Given a couple days I or someone familiar with Maven and eXist-db could probably figure it out. However, I really don't want to do that (at least as part of the project) as we are for "sensible reasons" trying to avoid running multiple eXist-db inside a Servlet container.

CodePudding user response：

The general consensus is that running eXist/a database in a tomcat container is a bad idea. At least the core team does not want to support this route as there are many issues with class loaders, location of writing data etc. The testing/support costs too much effort.

We do recommend to run eXist-db in a docker container, this is well tested, very stable and a industry standard. We provide secure containers to the community.