Hi! With 'forrest war' (and friends) you create a webapp that you may deploy in Tomcat but it is necessary to re-create it everytime there are changes in the XML sources.
Having 'forrest run' as a service the well-known and excellent in-place editing and on-demand rendering features [1] of Forrest work still the same. (End of advertisement) See also the following threads http://tinyurl.com/l74a6 http://tinyurl.com/z4bgv (both on http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/forrest-user/) Cheers Johannes [1] http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#webapp Gunther Sablon wrote: > Hi again, > apparently http://forums.firedaemon.com/viewtopic.php?t=65 describes the > differences between the two solutions. > Regards, > Gunther > > Gunther Sablon wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am not sure if this solves the same problem, but in my opinion there >> is a non commercial solution. >> If you run forrest as a webapp inside Tomcat, I think it is possible >> to start Tomcat as a service. >> See http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/JavaServiceWrapper. >> Regards, >> Gunther >> >> >> Johannes Schaefer wrote: >> >>> Hi All! >>> >>> We found a little program (commercial, though: $US 35) that >>> starts even batch files as windows service: Firedaemon [1]. >>> >>> I checked it with Forrest (see screen shots in attachment) >>> and it works in live mode ('forrest run'), great! >>> >>> We (i.e. our customers) use it to deploy Forrest on a central >>> server without the need to leave the DOS box open. >>> >>> Maybe somebody else may find it useful, too. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Johannes >>> >>> >>> [1] http://www.firedaemon.com/index.php >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> >> > -- User Interface Design GmbH * Teinacher Str. 38 * D-71634 Ludwigsburg Fon +49 (0)7141 377 000 * Fax +49 (0)7141 377 00-99 Geschäftsstelle: User Interface Design GmbH * Lehrer-Götz-Weg 11 * D-81825 München www.uidesign.de Buch "User Interface Tuning" von Joachim Machate & Michael Burmester www.user-interface-tuning.de
