Currently the Tomcat WAR deployer deploys the WAR bundle to a temp file location under the user's home directory (e.g. tomcat-notifServResources7169.osgi). This makes running this type of bundle in a controlled environment where sys admins will balk at such deployments impossible to manage.

The createDocBase method in the TomcatWarDeployer class is private and fairly hard coded.

A strategy class that could be injected (in a similar fashion as the ContextPathStrategy) would be an ideal way to provide customization of this (e.g. a TomcatDocBaseStrategy), the default strategy could be the logic in the current private createDocBase method.