On 7 Feb 2002, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> Date: 07 Feb 2002 01:55:42 -0500
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Can a servlet exit?
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> can a servlet remove itself?
No. Java provides no means to remove an existing class from a class
loader, once it has been loaded.
> I have a situation where a servlet's
> configuration file may require on-the-fly edits, but the site runs
> dozens of servlets and we don't want to restart tomcat just to
> restart one webapp.
>
> Long term, we plan to re-write the servlet to include a "reload"
> function (the proper way to do this), but for now the easiest path
> would seem to be to have the servlet purge itself from the servlet
> container such that it will be completely reloaded on the next
> request. Is this possible?
>
The only choice (and the one that Tomcat implements when you reload a
webapp) is to shut down the application, throw away its class loader, and
load things up again.
Craig
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