Hi,
The option you're looking for (most likely) is the reloadable attribute
of the Context element.  Its description has some answers for you.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Bookey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:13 AM
>To: Tomcat User List
>Subject: Tomcat 4.* compilation of the WEB-INF classes
>
> Dear List,
>
>I am using tomcat 4.0. My experience sofar is that when I put my
uncompiled
>.java files inside the WEB-INF\classes directory, and do a restart the
>java files will ALL be compiled. This is not due to my web-xml
settings,
>but
>default Tomcat 4. behaviour.
>
>However, later when I made a change to one .java file, I thought I
would
>just need to remove the affected .class file, do a re-start and I would
>see the effects of my changes. This does not seem to be the case, and I
got
>a 404 type error I think that the class file was not available.
>
>What is the behaviour of Tomcat regarding compilation? There must be an
>option inside the server.xml regarding this, and why when I removed one
>.class file
>did tomcat not see that it was missing and re-compile it !!
>
>regards
>
>Ben
>
>
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