I am using Tomcat 5.5.12 but this has been an issue since the first 5.5.xrelease. During development I've been trying to use both Tomcat's ant tasks as well as the browser interface to the Manager to deploy, start, stop, undeploy my webapp. I start Tomcat, and I deploy using either method. This works. Now, I make some changes and I need to redeploy.
I've tried stopping the webapp. This seems to work, so then I try undeploy. This removes the WAR file and the context.xml (which as renamed when deployed) but leaves a webapp folder because Tomcat still retains holds on a few resources like some JAR files in the WEB-INF/lib folder. So then when I try and redeploy, nothing works after that. If I simply redeploy without stopping the webapp, pretty much the same results. If I stop, redeploy, start, same results. So am I doing anything in the wrong order or is Tomcat just a bit buggy these days when it comes to these actions? Thanks. Gregg Bolinger
