v5.5.x default context support outside of server.xml

[Jon Wilmoth <jonwilmoth (at) yahoo.com>]

I've tried unsuccessfully to deploy my webapp as the default context for my host using a context defined outside of the server.xml (individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory) as strongly recommended in http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html*. I searched the mailing list archives and found a thread on this subject that ended without any resolution. There seems to be some conflict between different sections of the context config documentation** that leads me to believe it's not possible to specify a default virtual host's context with an empty string "path" attribute for a context.  Is this true?  If not, please let me know what I'm missing. 

Thanks, 
Jon 

* "Please note that for tomcat 5, unlike tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended 
to place <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file. Instead, 
put them in the META-INF/context.xml directory of your WAR file or the 
conf directory as described above." 

** "a Context that has an empty PATH attribute will become the default web application for the virtual host." 
and 
"The value of this field [path] must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase."

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