Scott,
I may be wrong but here's what I think with respect to your problems:-
Question 1 : - I really don't know :)
Question 2: - Though u have mentioned auto reload to "true" try the follwing:-
Make a new Context entry in the Server.xml with your application and set
the reload value to true and see of you observations repeat. We had done a
similar observation and it defaults to auto-reload=false if u don't
mention it explicitly ion server.xml
Question 3: Tomcat's web applications are loaded using an adaptive /web
app class loader but it too is a class loader. So once a class is laoded by
the class loader it wont load it again until the class has changed( as per
your previous question) so removing your classes would not probably affect
the Classes.
Hope that helps
Anand
At 08:23 AM 8/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
> 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
