Hi Ken, I do use eclipse but only for development. I cant really deploy from eclipse for several reasons. One of them being that the deployment server is a different machine from where i do the development.
Thanks On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Ken Bowen <kbo...@als.com> wrote: > If you use Eclipse (www.eclipse.org/ free; runs on Wins/Mac/Linux) with > the web plugins, it records your deploy target, and allows you to deploy > with either a war file, or in "exploded form". In the latter case, you can > usually leave your web server running, make a code change, save the file, > and it is automatically re-compiled & re-deployed to the running server. At > worst, you only need to hit a refresh button. It makes life much simpler, > and the syntax-directed editor saves me from many stupidities. > > --Ken > > > On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Ziggy wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> I've got a query on the way web applications are deployed. I have an >> application that has several jsp files and serlvets that are in >> WEB-INF/classes. >> >> When i deploy the application all i do is do a checkout on CVS, make the >> changes, rebuild the war using ANT and redeploy manually. This works fine >> but now i am having some doubts on this approach. >> >> Basicaly if i even change one file i have to rebuild the war file meaning >> i >> have to recompile everything. I think this is unecessary. i would like to >> be >> able to just recompile the one file and redeploy the one file without >> having >> to rebuild the whole war file. >> >> 1. How do you deploy your application? If you deploy as a war file, do you >> recompile everything even if the change is to a single file or a >> configuration file. >> >> 2. Could you provide an example on the approach you use from the point a >> source file comes out from CVS to the point it get to the production >> environment. (An example with a single file change would be usefull) >> >> 2. Do you use any tool to manage this? >> >> I am thinking that if i change one file i should be able to just compile >> that one file and move it to the WEB-INF/classes folder into the relevant >> folder. This might work but is there a better way of doing this instead of >> moving it manually? >> >> >> Thanks >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
