You don't need to restart tomcat, you can just restart your context which is quite fast. Look at the "manager" webapp.
Also, I believe tomcat 4.x will restart your context automatically when it detects new classes in the WEB-INF/classes directory. On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:26:46AM +0800, Frans Verhoef wrote: > I am not sure whether tomcat can regonise changes within beans, but it's easy to >restart > tomcat. Just create an alias for restarting tomcat. > Like if using bash, you can put the following line in .bashrc: > > alias restart_tomcat="/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh ; > /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh" > > if using C shell, you can put the following in .chhrc: > > alias restart_tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh ; > /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > > Then you don't have to explicitly retype the 2 commands every time, but you can just > type "restart_tomcat" > > Frans > > > Is there a way to have a bean recognized (when changes are done) without > > having to restart Tomcat4? Is not is there an easy way to restart tomcat. I > > know I have seen this in some documentation but after an two hours of > > looking I have failed to find the answer. I have a Linux (Redhat 8)/Tomcat > > environment (both latest releases). I have setup Tomcat4 so that it starts > > on bootup. There is no DOS window to see status so I use log4J. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.zapatec.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html