Re: reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-13 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Bob, thanks for all the good pointers. This is just the information about web-app development I've been needing but didn't know how to find(or what to look for). I've played with ANT a bit before, but I didn't know there was an applet to do the deployment for me(is that process portable to diff

Re: reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-12 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Just an FYI for anybody else that is trying to learn the "standard" way of doing things in Tomcat development. The following article is out of date with respect to the most recent version of Tomcat, but it does provide a framework for doing JSP development using Tomcat. It also provides code/s

Re: reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-11 Thread QM
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:27:05PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: : New Question (While I've got ya :): Given that I can use a WAR file : to "deploy," would you advise using Tomcat 5.x as my test server, : creating a WAR and then deploying that to a production 3.3.1 server? : This would kinda

Re: reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Bob, You just answered my follow up to your previous email :) Hmm, so I run a concurrent version of my production app(being careful not to impact the databases) either on a different instance of Tomcat or just a different context within the same instance of Tomcat. Then when I'm ready I pa

Re: reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-11 Thread Robert Bateman
The best advice I can give you is to investigate running your "test" application in a different context on the server. That way, you can recompile / alter the JSP files and everything else to your hearts content. IF that isn't possible, Tomcat runs quite nicely on my development machine where I c

reloading JSP files without reloading classes/beans

2004-10-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, I'm running 3.3.1 (and yes, I'll be upgrading to 5.x in the next few weeks as time allows) and want to reload JSP files, but not any class files. The root of the problem is that during beta testing I'm making lots of changes quickly(to JSP and classes/beans), but my system is in use.