Yes it does, but it is a significant performance impact to enable it
(it's enabled by default).
Tomcat does not (that I know of) have a way of rereading configuration
files on the without a restart though.
James Bucanek wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm a complete newbie to Tomcat. I glanced through the documentation
> and FAQs and didn't find an answer to this. So, now I'll annoy the
> list. ;)
>
> My ISP has just installed Tomcat and I plan to move several servlets
> that have been running under Sun's JSWDK reference server over to it.
>
> One really annoying problem (actually the lack of a feature) under
> the JSWDK server is that the servlet's class loader wasn't smart
> enough to recognized when a .jar or .class file had been modified and
> know to reload those Classes.
>
> The end result was, whenever I made a change to my servlet, I had to
> kill the server and start it up again. Rather rude to those users
> with active sessions!
>
> So, does Tomcat's class loader do this? If not, is there some other
> way of forcing it to reload the servlet code? That is, some way
> accessible to a mere user, and not one that requires root/admin
> privileges?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James
>
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