Re: getting tomcat to reload after compiling servlet..

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Fri, 29 May 2009 15:55:44 -0700 (PDT)

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maya wrote:

I can't get tomcat to reload a servlet after I have compiled it.. I have
to turn server off and on every time I compile a servlet..

You don't have to do that. What you have to do is re-deploy the WAR
file to Tomcat, for which you can use the Tomcat manager application.

Compilation of a servlet is insufficient - you also have to deploy
it. That means putting its .class file in the correct location. For
Tomcat, that means dropping a WAR in the webapps/ subdir.

I put this in web.xml for the app (tomcat/webapps/mail/WEB-INF/mail):

<Context path="/mail"
docBase="C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.23\webapps\mail\" reloadable="true" />

but it's being ignored...

One period suffices to end a sentence.

It's not being ignored - you just expect it to accomplish something
it's not meant to do.

I have searched for this on google [sic], but all I find are QUESTIONS ab=

out

this from folks who are having the same problem, no answers....;)

Just follow the standard deployment instructions to deploy your
webapp. (There's information on the Tomcat web site regarding that.)

--
Lew