If you check out the Manager App you will see that you can "reload" particular apps by name.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/manager-howto.html It works. I've used it. On windows it is just a blank screen that you send url commands to. But under a unix environ you get a nice looking screen with the list of names of apps and commands to perform. And I am quite certain that a really nice shell is being worked on for a future release. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting init params without restarting tomcat 4.0.1 Here is my situation. I've inherited a bunch of servlets that used to be deployed under JWS. We are transitioning to Tomcat 4.0.1 on a Linux platform. Tomcat is run at the root level, where I do not have (and should not have) access. Many of my servlets, make use of initial parameters, which to my understanding are placed in the local web.xml. Unfortunately when changes are made to web.xml files, they are not recognized until Tomcat is restarted. This means, I must bug the system administrator to restart Tomcat, and for that matter Apache, which Tomcat runs under. Besides, restarting web servers is not an ideal sort of situation anyway. Is there another way around this? I've been researching, because it seems like this would be a fairly common issue, but to date have found nothing to help me. Have I completely missed some important documentation or some basic servlet concept? Thank you in advance for any help you can give. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
