In the Application Developer at the page noted below, I find information about the behavior of a .war file. http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/appdev/deployment.html It says: Copy the web application archive file into directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/. When Tomcat is started, it will automatically expand the web application archive file into its unpacked form, and execute the application that way. This approach would typically be used to install an additional application, provided by a third party vendor or by your internal development staff, into an existing Tomcat installation. NOTE - If you use this approach, and wish to update your application later, you must both replace the web application archive file AND delete the expanded directory that Tomcat created, and then restart Tomcat, in order to reflect your changes.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My war file does not seem to expand automatically. Has the behavior changed in 4.1.12 ? What conditions might account for the failure of a war file built with ANT war task to not expand? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
