on 1/2/2001 6:22 PM, "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I just tried this again (against current CVS code) with Vincent's original
> test
> cases and it works fine for me. I can send you the test suite if you like, to
> verify that it works/doesn't work in your environment.
>
> One issue that might cause this appearance is if you don't wait long enough.
> By
> default, Tomcat 4.0 checks for classfile changes every 15 seconds, if
> reloadable
> is set to true. You can change this as follows:
>
> <Context path="" docBase="scarab" reloadable="true">
> <Loader checkInterval="5"/>
> </Context>
>
> As an alternative (and this works even on apps that you have not defined as
> "reloadable" in server.xml), consider this strategy:
>
> * Install the "manager" webapp that comes with Tomcat if not
> present already.
>
> * Create a user with role "manager" in server/tomcat-users.xml
> (actual username and password are arbitrary).
>
> * Whenever you want to restart Scarab, issue an HTTP request to:
> http://localhost:8080/manager/reload?path=/xxx
> where /xxx is the context path (empty string for the root webapp).
>
> * You will need to log on (BASIC authentication) the first time you
> do this, with the username/password you created above.
Na. That is annoying. :-) I would rather just have this check turned down to
something like 3 seconds. I didn't realize that there is a Loader
checkInterval setting.
BTW, where is the DTD for the server.xml file? There isn't one defined at
the top of the file.
> NOTE: In reviewing the code, it looks like this won't handle the root webapp
> correctly until I do a quick bugfix, but the basic principle applies.
Can you email me privately a copy of the fixed server.jar file as I can't
build Tomcat yet. :-)
thanks,
-jon
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