Re: changing class file and reloading question

[Paul Sundling]

You can reload using the manager app (the link is on the start page when 
you first start tomcat).  You can also use an ant target.  You can 
reload a single webapp, which is probably the better way of doing it.  
Here's an example target from a build.xml that takes an arguement:



 <target name="reload" depends="deploy" description="Reloads Tomcat 
Application (Local)">
   <get src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/reload?path=/${app.name}";
   dest="status.txt"
   username="yourtomcataccount"
   password="yourtomcatpassword" />
   <loadfile property="catalina.reload" srcFile="status.txt" />
   <echo>${catalina.reload}</echo>
   <delete file="status.txt"/>
 </target>

Luke Vanderfluit wrote:

Hi,

I'm running tomcat 4.1.27 standalone on Redhat 9

I have a class that I'm changing (development) and don't want to have to
restart tomcat each time I make a change.
It wouldn't be so bad to do that if it wasn't for the fact that
tomcat takes ages to read my servlet every time it's restarted.
I have got the following entry in my server.xml file

#####################################
<DefaultContext reloadable="true"/>
       <!-- Tomcat Root Context -->

       <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0" reloadable="true">
       </Context>
#####################################
The class I'm changing is in the ROOT/WEB-INF/classes directory

the console message when I hit 'reload' on the browser is:

WebappClassLoader:   Resource '/WEB-INF/classes/Topic3x4.class' was
modified; Date is now: Wed Aug 20 05:53:59 CST 2003 Was: Wed Aug 20
05:44:04 CST 2003
How do I get tomcat to indeed reload the classes without having to
restart each time?
Thanks,
kind regards,
 



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