> I've figured out what's going on........ > I'm using IDEA coupled to Tomcat for my debugging. IDEA > creates a deployment > directory (exploded) each time you run a debug session, Doh. I've run into that too -- in 4.5.1 the exploded dir was required, but I could hit "make" and it just copied the changed template files. In 4.5.2 however, IDEA seems to also restart Tomcat which is sloooow.
I found that in 4.5.2, you can specify not to create an exploded directory, and use and existing directory instead. So for Velocity integration to work nicely, I have a directory <project>/webapp which has the standard servlet dirs (e.g. /WEB-INF) and point the web module config at the web.xml file at /webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml. This means you can edit Velocity templates inside IDEA, and see the changes immediately. Aside -- another benefit of this structure -- with a couple ant tasks, the app can be given to an HTML Designer via CVS. After setting up Java & Tomcat on their machine, they can launch the webapp, edit templates, refresh browser to see them, and commit changes to CVS. Works great. :-) Timo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
