I use this ant target to restart a web app in tomcat 4.x:
<target name="appreload"
description="Reload application on servlet container">
<reload url="${manager.url}"
username="${manager.username}"
password="${manager.password}"
path="${app.path}"/>
</target>
-- padhu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dror Matalon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Linux/Tomcat auto reloading when a bean is added
> 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.
> >
> >
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