title: How do you specify the root context in your <web-app> tags in web.xml?
body: <p>I would like to specify the root context of my Java web application in my WAR file. How can I do this using valid <code>web-app</code> XML in a <code>web.xml</code> file?</p>
  
  <p>Oh, yes I would like to do this in an application server agnostic way.</p>