On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 08/12/2011 14:19, Robert Winch wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > >> You say below that the compiled tags & JSP don't appear to have been > >> recompiled - either upgrade, or clear the work directory to ensure that > >> they have been. > >> > > > > I'm not sure I understand. Is there a reason we would want them to be > > recompiled? The reason I had mentioned this was not because I thought it > > was a problem but because I thought it helped rule out a problem with how > > the jsp's were compiled. I'm not certain if my logic is sound, but I > > thought since it was not working, later did work, and the time stamp had > > not been updated there was likely something other than the compilation of > > the jsp's at fault. > > Very occasionally between minor versions we make changes to the code > that converts JSPs to Java and correct operation *requires* that the > JSPs are recompiled. We don't do it very often but it does happen. We > try and do things in such a way that Tomcat handles this automatically > e.g. look in the changelog for bug 33453. That said, I *always* clean > out the work directory when doing any Tomcat upgrade. > > Mark > Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure if this was related to my issue or if it was advice for when we update Tomcat. Since we have not made any updates to Tomcat I do not think this is related to this issue. However, this is definitely good information to have for when we do the upgrade. Thanks again. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
