Thank you for your suggestions, I hope they'll increase my productivity! :-)
Regards, Mário Lopes On 4/4/06, Bart Busschots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mário Lopes wrote: > > Hi. > > > > First off, a little bit of my background. I've been developing with > > Java for a long time now. None of it was web based development. On > > this field, I've programmed with PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, Python, > > etc.. > > > > Now that I'm encharged of developing a Java/JSP/Servlets application I > > had to decide about a framework to ease my life. It had to have a > > strong MVC pattern to enforce organization. So I picked Struts :-) > > > > Now that I've given it a test drive, some questions arose: > > > > 1) I tried using Eclipse, as I've always did, for developing. What IDE > > do you suggest? > > > I've never used Eclipse. I like using jEdit with the various Java > Extensions installed. I very much doubt it's better than eclipse though. > I just like it because I use it a lot and have done for a long time. > > 2) I noticed that each time I did a simple change I had to build with > > ant to package a .war and then restart Tomcat to recognize it. Tomcat > > takes 20 secs to load which is absolutely unbearable. Is there a more > > agile way of doing things? > > > On my development server I set up a context for my project that is > re-loadable and rather than getting my build script to create a war file > I just get it to compile the lot and then copy it all to the context's > folder. Tomcat then notices that the files in that context have changed > and just re-loads them. I find it a lot quicker than having to start and > stop Tomcat. > > To do this just create a folder with the name if the web app in > $CATALINA_HOME/webapps (for this example lets use test_app) and then > create an XML file in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ with the > same name as the folder you just made but with a .xml extension and then > add contents like this: > > <Context path="/test_app" docBase="test_app" override="true" > privileged="true" reloadable="true"></Context> > > Remembering of course to repalce test_app with the name of the folder > you created. > > Hope that's of some help, > > Bart. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
