Hey There!
I did learn more stuff.
What had happened is that along the way I explicitly added WEB-INF/classes to my
TOMCAT path in my tomcat.bat file. I figured this would be harmless. But I
guess it does effect CLASS RELOADING.
Therefore, I found if you want CLASS RELOADING to work DO NOT place your
WEB-INF/classes path in the system CLASSPATH or explicitly in the
TOMCAT_CLASSPATH.
Wow! I took me all day to get this working :-(
Dennis
Dennis Murphy wrote:
> Hi Again,
>
> No one got back to me but I did learn a few things today:
>
> 1. No need to tell the system class path about the WEB-INF area. All I need
> to do is compile from WEB-INF/classes and JDK finds all of my custom
> packages. This is b/c by default . is added to JDK's path.
>
> 2. I think I know why TOMCAT can't find my classes. That's b/c I do not have
> a /WEB-INF/lib folder. I think this folder should contain the webapp class
> loader among other things.
>
> When I installed TOMCAT 3.2.1 out of the box - the examples webapp did not
> have a /WEB-INF/lib folder (unless I accidentally deleted it!).
>
> Question: Where do I download the required files for the /WEB-INF/lib
> folder? Or do I have to build them?
>
> Dennis
>
> Dennis Murphy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to JSP.
> >
> > I desire to use the class reloadable="YES" feature in TOMCAT so that I
> > can develop my JAVA BEANS and quickly test them without restarting
> > TOMCAT for every little change.
> >
> > I believe that the reloadable feature will not work if I inform the
> > system CLASSPATH where my JSP application classes are located. The
> > reason for this is that the once the SYSTEM CLASS LOADER loads my
> > classes the TOMCAT CLASSLOADER has no control and is unable to
> > unload/reload my classes.
> >
> > Okay if I'm right on my understanding of this, then how do you setup a
> > development environment. In order for me to compile my JAVA BEANS using
> > JDK javac, I must tell JDK where my classes are located in the SYSTEM
> > CLASS PATH ... else it won't be able to pickup my custom packages that
> > are part of my application.
> >
> > So is this like a trade-off? Compile JAVA BEANS or use the TOMCAT class
> > reloading feature - but not both?
> >
> > Can someone please shed some light on how one should setup a development
> > environment? I would like to have the ability to compile and then test
> > with tomcat configured to reload classes.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Dennis
