Maybe I'm missing something, but if you re-generate the pages, and have Tomcat in development mode, the new pages will automatically be re-compiled the next time they are accessed.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:59 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Run shell script when web application start/restart The reason for me choosing the first, messy solution was that this had to be a quick fix, rewriting the logic in the JSP pages was out of the question (and way above the allocated budget ;) ). Of course I had the shell scripts and configuration files so it seemed just the right solution to use these tools in the startup process of the webapp. It seems that I can convince the cusomer to just run the shell scripts that modify(actually generate) the JSP pages but then I face an other problem. After generating and copying the JSP pages in the right place how can I tell tomcat (from the shell script) to restart the application (or to recompile the pages) ? Rgds Thomas On 7/13/06, Avi Deitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think so. You could, theoretically, have a context listener > that then executes a shell script, but that is really messy, and the > security manager probably won't even allow it. > > If I understand correctly, you want to have the following happen on > context restart: > - JSP pages get rebuilt from some macros or config files > > I can think of two ways to do this. The not-so-great way is to have a > context listener read the config files and generate the pages. The > problem is that I don't know when JSP pages are compiled by the Tomcat > engine - before or after context listeners are invoked. I believe you > can force a re-compilation of the JSP pages at that point, but I am > not sure how. > > The much smarter way is to ask why your JSP pages need to be > macro/dynamically generated. JSP includes enough logic tags. Why not > refactor your JSP pages so that they read the configuration files and > output the appropriate information? This would be much cleaner, and > probably wouldn't even require context restart? > > Tom Potter wrote: > > > Jen, > > > > Just to make sure that we both talk about the same events : > > I don't want to restart the whole tomcat, only one web application, > > that is, by clicking on the start link(or restart) in on the admin page. > > I don't see how your suggestion would help me... if I'm missing > > something please make it clear to me... > > > > Rgds > > Thomas > > > > On 7/13/06, Mead, Jennifer L - VSCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On my box the start and stop scripts are just that. .sh shell scripts. > >> In your case I would just copy them to a save file and put in an > >> execution string. The start scripts are in tomcat_home/bin. > >> > >> Jen > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Tom Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:28 AM > >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org > >> Subject: Run shell script when web application start/restart > >> > >> The JSP pages in the Web application I install under Tomcat 4.1.30 > >> are based on some configuration files the user wants to modify, > >> thus I > wrote > >> a shell script to rebuild the JSP pages and repopulate the webapps > >> folder. > >> > >> My question is that is there a way to hook up my shell script with > >> the webapp start/stop proces so it would run at every startup, in > >> other words the user would activate my script by restarting the application ? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Thomas > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> -- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To > >> unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > -- > ______________________________ > Avi Deitcher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
