Universal Install Path Format

You can specify an install path within an installed component reference. In these cases, the installPath attribute value is converted to universal format before the installed component reference is resolved. This conversion occurs because the install path of the installed component is also stored in universal format.

In universal format, all occurrences of the path separator in the install path are replaced by a slash (/). The path separator is specific to the operating system that is running on the master server. Trailing slashes are dropped. The root install path (/) is not converted to the empty path.

When the Master Server application is running on UNIX based systems, trailing slashes are ignored. Thus, both /opt/apache/ and /opt/apache can be used to refer to the component that is installed in the /opt/apache directory.