At 07:02 PM 08/28/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>Scott,
>
>I may be wrong but here's what I think with respect to your problems:-
>
>Question 1 : - I really don't know :)
I checked in the archive again and this one I think was recently answered.
When running apache and tomcat seperately you have to restart apache when
you restart tomcat, or like someone else said just wait and define a nice
friendly error page, which is a good idea.
>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
Tried this and it still doesnt seem to work. Unless im doing something
wrong. I have my webapps directory, then myapp.war and the unpacked myapp
directory If i then go somewhere else javac my one servlet and move the
class file into webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/classes it is not auto reloaded.
Strangely enough even after restarting tomcat i dont see my changes. I dont
belive that though, it must be something Im doing but still i would think
it would be simple.
>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.
Does anyone here on the list (a lurking developer maybe ) know what exactly
what tomcat checks to determine if a class should be reloaded. Is it just
the date time or what?
>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
>
