I have just migrated from Tomcat 4.0.3 to 4.1.24 on win2k. At present we have a test server which we do all development and testing on then once the app is stable we transfer the app directory onto the live server to $CATALINA_HOME\webapps, restart tomcat and it's good to go.
During development we use a java editor eg jGrasp to edit .java files which are stored in $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\app\WEB-INF\classes and compile these individually. It gets a bit tiresome restarting tomcat after each recompile but I can live with that (I have reloadable=true but this doesn't seem to be reliable). Obviously this is a fairly poor way to do things so I am keen to use the manager in 4.1.24 to reload apps and ant to build it. I have looked at the docs and created the directory structure as suggested in the Application Developer's guide (java files in src\WEB-INF\classes, etc) and can build from src directory so that class files are stored in the build\WEB-INF\classes. BTW this dir structure should be stored in folder called "projectname" somewhere other than $CATALINA_HOME\webapps? Now from what I can tell I would then have to move these class files to $CATALINA_HOME\webapps\app\WEB-INF\classes to be able to test it, surely I am missing something because this seems to be quite laborious. Do you use ant each time you recompile during development or just compile from your editor? If anyone can provide some suggestions on the recommended way to do things I would greatly appreciate it coz I am trying to implement much better development practices :) Cheers Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
