Changes to deployed .war file not copied to unpacked war directory at Tomcat startup?

2012-01-18 Thread Aron Roberts
With apologies if this turns out to be a truly newbie question, or has been answered in the archives (the MARC archives are inaccessible today due to SOPA Blackout Day) ... We've reproducibly observed the following with respect to updating the contents of unpacked/exploded WAR directories,

Re: Changes to deployed .war file not copied to unpacked war directory at Tomcat startup?

2012-01-18 Thread Mark Thomas
On 18/01/2012 20:31, Aron Roberts wrote: With apologies if this turns out to be a truly newbie question, or has been answered in the archives (the MARC archives are inaccessible today due to SOPA Blackout Day) ... We've reproducibly observed the following with respect to updating the

Re: Changes to deployed .war file not copied to unpacked war directory at Tomcat startup?

2012-01-18 Thread Aron Roberts
Thanks for this fast and helpful response, Mark. Having clarity around this behavior is much appreciated! The behaviour is entirely as expected. Tomcat has no way of telling that the WAR has been updated while Tomcat is not running. Figuring out that something had changed would be

RE: Changes to deployed .war file not copied to unpacked war directory at Tomcat startup?

2012-01-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Changes to deployed .war file not copied to unpacked war directory at Tomcat startup? If you update a WAR file while Tomcat is shut down, you *must* delete any associated unpacked directory as well. Best to clean out the webapp's