I would like to add here that you have to specify that you want reloading
enabled. This is optional as enabling this option degrades performance.
In tomcat, you have to add *reloadable="true"* in the context tag.
regds,
Gokul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Srikrishnan Lakshmanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SERVLET-INTEREST] how to access the new changed file in
servlet
> With the Servlet 2.2 spec , changes in class files are detected
> automatically and the servlet engine reloads them without having to be
> restarted . The latest version of Tomcat does this. I have personal
> knowledge of that. Caveat:
>
> The classes should not be in the classpath used by tomcat iteself.They
> should be in the "context" class directory.
>
> Library jar files are also not re-loaded ( even when present in the
> "contect" lib directory.)
>
> Other than above two caveat , it works on the fly.
>
> Sri
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Shital Kanitkar
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 1:16 PM
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>
> You are right. I stand corrected. :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lokesh Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: how to access the new changed file in servlet
>
>
> > Shital:
> >
> > I would like to differ with u.
> > Its not the browser but the Servlet engine of the web server which
caches
> > the servlet class files. Hence either u need to restart the web server
or
> > write an extension to the JVM instructing it to reload the file if its
> > time-stamp is different from the file which is in memory.
> >
> > Lokesh
> >
> >
> >
> > Shital Kanitkar
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
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> > > cc:
> > Sent by: "A mailing Subject: Re: how to
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> > about Sun
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> > 09/16/00 01:18 PM
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> > Your browser generally retains the old class file. close the browser and
> > re-start it.
> >
> > -Shital
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: mahadeva mahesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:06 PM
> > Subject: how to access the new changed file in servlet
> >
> >
> > > Hi all ,
> > > Sorry for asking a simple question . My class file
> > > is in the servlets directory . I will access it by
> > > calling it thru "http://localhost:8080/servlet/Hello"
> > > .
> > > Now I will change the java file , compile it and now
> > > replace the old Hello.class file in the servlets
> > > directory . If i call now thru the browser , it is
> > > actually displaying the old results , means it
> > > executes the old class file not the changed one . Now
> > > the question is - how to make the browser to call the
> > > new class file .
> > >
> > > thanks ,
> > > Mahesh
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