I've actually had problems with the reloadable attribute. I think it may be broken.
You may try the HTMLManager application, which allows you to monitor, start, stop and reload your various webapps. You'll need to modify the conf/tomcat-users.xml and webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml; instructions are in the comments, and here's the link to the HOW-TO: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/manager-howto.html - Alfred > "Douglas, Rory" wrote: > > You can specify the attribute > > reloadable="true" > > in the <context> element for your web-application (in server.xml) > > This will, however, watch all files for changes. There is no way to my > knowledge of watching only some files. > > cheers > Rory > > -----Original Message----- > From: cbarnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:31 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Updating files without restarting Tomcat > > I am using Tomcat 4. > > I have a number of properties files in the WEB-INF/classes directory. > I need > to be able to change the values of the properties in these files, but > it > looks as though I need to restart Tomcat every time I change a value > in > order for it to recognise the new version of the file. Is there any > configuration I can change so that it is not necessary to restart > Tomcat > when I change the values of the properties. Is it possible for this to > apply > just to specified files - I don't want it to check the status of all > the > files in WEB-INF/classes because I know the class files won't change. > > Thanks, > Catharine > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- A. Alfred Ayache, | 20 years' experience President, The Last Byte, Inc. | Testimonials Custom software par excellence | Links http://www.lastbyte-inc.com | Free Software -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
