I don't have a strong opinion. Tomcat 5.0 works perfectly for me.
However, if you solve the problem, I might switch to 5.5. Cheers, -Cedric
Aaron Kagawa wrote:
Ah! I noticed that my war directory was being deleted too. But, I
didn't know what was causing it.
I'm all for any solution that solves the deploy problems that I am
having.
thanks, Aaron
At 03:49 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
Greetings, all,
Hongbing, Cedric, and I were meeting today and Cedric mentionned that
he continues to use Tomcat 5.0.* over Tomcat 5.5.* because the
undeploy command for 5.5.* deletes the war directory. This means
that two quickStarts in a row, for example, still lead to recompiling
the system since the associated class files were deleted.
I wasn't aware of this change in behavior until today, and I just
confirmed it for myself. This leads me to the following question:
should we change the "hotDeploy" task to copy the build/war file over
to the Tomcat installation directory and then deploying the
application from there?
The advantages of this, as far as I can see, is that it would
eliminate the need to recompile the system each time. The copy
should be cheap as well, since it can only copy files that have
actually changed.
It occurs to me that I "optimized" away this copy at some prior time
before 5.5, and now that Tomcat is deleting the directory during the
undeploy, we might be better off reinstating the copy.
Your thoughts?
Cheers,
Philip
