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[web] JSP Development

Started by Krumble Dec 6, 2004 at 6:11 PM 0 replies 650+ views

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Dec 6, 2004 at 6:11 PM

I'm developing a web application using JSP and Apache Tomcat 5. I have a series of class files tucked away in WEB-INF/classes/... I'm trying not to put too much code in the actual jsp files themselves. Tomcat seems to have an issue where if I alter the files in the class directory, it wont reload them unless I physically restart the server. Is there anyway that I can get Tomcat to check for changes in the .class files while I'm developing my application? or just have tomcat reload them every time? Thanks.

markr

Dec 8, 2004 at 2:21 PM

There is an option on the config in server.xml (on the context element I think) which *should* cause it to automatically reload the app when a class file changes (or at least, when it notices).

Note that the app won't get reloaded when a JSP changes, just the JSP gets recompiled.

In more modern versions of Tomcat, each application can have its own context .xml file which is thrown into a directory for automatic deployment - but it's a while since I've used Tomcat.

Mark

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