How to set a Application as  Root Context of tomcat

http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-context

http://www.cnblogs.com/daition/archive/2010/05/18/1737876.html

http://www.xinotes.org/notes/note/690/

You might think that creating a context.xml under META-INF of the WAR file would also work, it doesn't. The path attribute is ignored unless specified in server.xml.