Andrew Scherpbier wrote: > Rickard Öberg wrote: > >> David Jencks wrote: >> >>> How would this help in the least? My understanding is that if you use a >>> directory, the dd is checked for time changes >> >> >> For the auto-deployer, yes. I think I'd actually prefer to not use the >> auto-deployer, and instead make an Ant task that does the deploy >> command explicitly. Then there's no need to watch dd's or anything. > > > I ran into the same problem and solved it by running Tomcat 4.0 as a > separate process during development. Since tomcat works just fine with > an already unpacked tree for my webapp, I simply modify my JSPs directly > (I have a symbolic link from my webapp development tree to tomcat's > webapps directory.)
I remember now raising the same sort of issue during the JBoss training in London. I always end up running a separate web container during development because the turnaround of redeploying due to minor jsp changes is just too frustrating. It's not just about the time for the deployment, which is minimal - if you're working on frontend stuff and just essentially modifying web pages, then you lose your whole session state. If you have a complicated web application with security, shopping carts etc, and you're working on the checkout pages, then you have to go through the whole use-case procedure every time you redeploy. If a web container can be configured to pick up the jsp's directly then you only have to reload the page to see a change. The only solution I've found is to run a separate tomcat instance against jboss, with only the web application configured. The full ear is still deployed in jboss as it would be in production. Configuring security for a separate web container is a bit of a drag. The ideal situation would be if an integrated JBoss/Jetty or JBoss/Tomcat could also be configured to use a separately configured web application context during development and have the web coantainer spot modifications to JSPs as above. Dunno if this is feasible, pie in the sky or what ... Luke. -- Luke Taylor. Monkey Machine Ltd. PGP Key ID: 0x57E9523C http://www.mkeym.com _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
