I have a question that hopefully someone on this list can help with. I use
the startup.sh and shutdown.sh scripts to start and stop tomcat. If i stop
tomcat and then bring it back up and go and try to view a servlet I get an
internal server error from apache, like tomcat really isnt up yet or
something. But if i then hit refresh on my brower like 7 or 8 times tomcat
will start responding like normal. I saw a message on the same topic of
this in the mail archives but I didnt see a definite answer. Anyone know
why this is? And is there any way to stop this?
Second question is about auto reloading. I use ant to create my war files
so they are of the standard directory layout. After tomcat starts and
unpacks the war I should be able to copy recompiled classes into the
MyProject/WEB-INF/classes directory and have tomcat auto reload (server.xml
says that auto reload is default to true ) This works most of the time. But
sometimes i swear it wont reload my servlet until i stop tomcat, remove the
unpacked war directory and restart tomcat. This doesn't make any sense to me?
Also one last semi related question. Can someone tell me how tomcat decides
what servlets to cache in memory? If it is really auto reloaded servlets,
if i delete all my class files i shouldnt be able to get to any servlets
correct? But i have deleted all my class files and still can get to certain
servlets in my web app. So how does tomcat choose what servlets to cache or
not?
Any and all information that can help with these three questions would be
greatly apprecaited. Thanks in advance.
Scott Knight
