take a look at jboss. I'm late on the thread, but if all you're looking to do is hot-deploy, then this'll do it for you. JBoss uses tomcat as an MBean, so you're still getting the tomcat functionality as your container, but you're also getting a ton more. just a suggestion. --- Mark Benussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your replies, Wendy and Bill. > > Yes I could reload the webapp but, and this is a big > but, the start-up of my > server takes a good while longer than reloading the > struts config. There are > things going on that are not contained within my > struts config (Such as web > services instantiation, XSL transformation of data > to html etc etc). > > No worries if it can't be done anymore, I have > accepted it for months... it > was just a question thrown innocently to see if > anyone knew of the way that > had been replaced. My question has actually been > answered: > > "My understanding is that the reload action was > dropped because it sometimes > left things in an unpredictable state." > > That's fine, although I wonder if it could have been > looked at and worked on > instead of just dropped. > > I am not a contributor but I think it's high time I > did some 'give back' as > my old Big Blue would have said. If anyone has some > detail on where to start > with looking at this code and the problems that left > it in an unstable state > I would be interested to see them. On the other hand > if this action was not > useful to anyone except me I will keep quiet ;) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 March 2005 22:52 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Reloading Configuration File > > From: "Mark Benussi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This action "went" in Struts 1.2 and I never found > a replacement. > > Any ideas anyone? > > I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. The > discussion you quoted seems > to start from a false premise: that you have to > stop and start Tomcat to > get config changes to take effect. > > All you have to do is reload the individual webapp > that had changes. I do > it with 'ant reload'. (Tomcat ships with Ant tasks > that interact with its > manager app.) You can also use the HTML version of > the manager app-- click > reload, and you're done. > > -- > Wendy Smoak > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
