Since you are using Eclipse, why not try out the Sysdeo Tomcat plugin? -----Original Message----- From: Ruth, Brice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2004 23:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Eclipse+Ant+Tomcat 5 - problems
I'm starting to try out Tomcat 5 in our development environment, which has been running Tomcat 4.1.x to-date. Preface: our IDE is Eclipse, I use Ant with the catalina-ant tasks to install/remove our web-app from a local Tomcat installation. Everything has worked fine, though I've noticed that after my first install (once I start Eclipse and Tomcat) - anytime I remove/install the web-app, the install appears to init the app twice (my load-on-init servlet's are called twice, etc.) I never figured out what caused this, but it didn't negatively impact anything, so I didn't care. Now, with Tomcat 5 ... after a little tweaking, to my Eclipse environment, I was able to get my same install/remove task working with Ant. The only problem now is that after the initial install, when I do a remove/install, it seems to still init the app twice, only on the second init, it crokes. Talks about a property string that it can't find and then that it can't find the deployment directory for the app (the app is installed from a .WAR) Not good. So, I did some googling - found that apparent install/remove has been deprecated in favor of deploy/undeploy. Fine - so I tried using the deploy task. Apparently, ant doesn't have enough memory to deploy my 90MB+ .WAR (installing never seemed to be a problem) - and when I looked for threads on the DeployTask generating "OutOfMemory" exceptions, it said to increase ant's memory ... which I can't, for the life of myself, figure out how to do with Eclipse. I've previously gone done the path of having ant fork, but it caused so many problems with our builds, I'd rather not revisit that. Does anybody have anything that can help me? I'm trying out Tomcat 5 because Tomcat 4.1.x appears to have some pretty severe memory leaks with its install/remove operations - if I install/remove my web-app more than 2-3 times, Tomcat (not the Ant task and not Eclipse) runs OutOfMemory ... other users have reported that Tomcat 5 does much better in this arena. Advise on any of these issues is much appreciated!! Respectfully, Brice Ruth Brice D. Ruth Sr. IT Analyst Fiskars Brands, Inc. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. Note:__________________________________________________________________ This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Jaguar Freight Services and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs.
