Older versions of Tomcat don't, new ones will if you set "reloadable" to true in the context. It will monitor WEB-ING/lib and WEB-INF/classes for changes and reload if it detects any.
This canj cause a performance degradation on your server so you may only want to do this for development. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: WAR files don't unpack if the webapp is already there > I'm going through the standard compile->edit->test look on some > applications using JBuilder and Tomcat right now. I've got JBuilder > creating a new WAR file in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps on rebuild, but I need to > delete the old webapp directory before Tomcat will notice the new one and > unpack it. Is this a feature of Tomcat? Shouldn't it notice if the webapp > directory is out of date in comparison to the WAR file? > James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
