yes, I have 'reloadable' set to true in server.xml for my app directory
(under webapps) but its never reloaded my bean classes without restarting,
servlets I havn't tried it with as yet. The question seemed to me to relate
to beans in JSPs.
Sorry, I could have phrased my reply better : )
cheers,
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Endre St�lsvik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 19 July 2001 15:10
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Class reloading
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Paul Foxton wrote:
>
> | AFAIK tomcat doesn't support automatic reloading of
> classes. You do have to
> | restart.
>
> AFAIK all tomcats does support automatic reload, but it (at least 3.2)
> sucks. If you have "very plain servlets", which doesn't put
> many "real"
> objects into the HttpSession (just Strings, Longs and the
> like), then it
> works pretty good. But if you try to use selfmade objects,
> you get hit by
> severe ClassLoader issues (You'll get ClassCastExceptions all
> the time).
>
> Tomcat 4 should work, but I haven't tested it yet. It uses a
> funky scheme
> of serializing the whole Sessions stuff, and restarting the
> whole webapp,
> and then "booting" it up again. What happens with singletons,
> I ask, but
> haven't tested it yet, as mentioned.
>
> Look at tomcat's xml configure file, it's a <auto-reload>'ish
> parameter,
> turn it to true..
>
> --
> Mvh,
> Endre
>
