Chris, I am specifically trying to avoid rebuilding the project each time I
make small changes in jsp/html/whatever files, if that is what you are
suggesting. Now that you mention this, I doubt any maven plugin can achieve
what I'm trying to do either.
That did give me an idea though. I suppose I could write a script which
simply overwrites the deployed file with a copy from my workspace... I
would have to run this script each time I want to review my changes, which
is disappointing, but I guess it will work for now.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Christopher Schultz <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> On 2/26/16 11:53 AM, gmc filter wrote:
> > I am currently using Maven to build my project and compile it into a WAR
> > file.
> >
> > Does Maven have some plugin that can help me achieve what I am trying to
> do?
>
> If Maven doesn't know how to copy one file from one place to another,
> I'm still comfortable with my decision to completely ignore its
> existence as a build tool.
>
> With ant, it's as simple as (paraphrasing):
>
> <copy toDir="${deploy.dir}">
> <fileset dir="${jsp.source.dir}" includes="**/*.jsp" />
> </copy>
>
> -chris
>
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Christopher Schultz <
> > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> >
> >> To whom it may concern,
> >>
> >> On 2/25/16 4:08 PM, gmc filter wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> I'm having some trouble with tomcat and symbolic links. I am working
> with
> >>> OSX and I use a local instance of Tomcat to do some testing before
> >>> deploying my site elsewhere.
> >>>
> >>> What I want to do: I'd like to create a small script which will stop
> >>> tomcat, clear out old deployment folders, rebuild my project, copy the
> >>> resulting WAR file to the webapps folder, restart tomcat, wait for
> >>> deployment to finish, and finally replace a JSP file with a symbolic
> link
> >>> to the corresponding file that is in my workspace.
> >>>
> >>> Why I want to do this: I'd like to be able to quickly rebuild and
> >> redeploy
> >>> my WAR and also edit my JSP files and see those changes by simply
> >>> refreshing the already-open page.
> >>>
> >>> My problem: I have all of the above steps working so far. However, as
> >> soon
> >>> as I swap out the real index.JSP with a link to the one in my
> workspace,
> >> I
> >>> can no longer load the page, I get a 404 error instead.
> >>>
> >>> What I have tried: I have found questions like mine asked many times
> and
> >>> usually the solution is to hunt down a "context.xml" file and add a tag
> >>> into that file, 'allowLinking="true"'. I have tried to add this tag
> into
> >>> "<tomcat home>/libexec/conf/context.xml", "<tomcat
> >>> home>/libexec/conf/Catalina/localhost/context.xml" (created this one)
> and
> >>> also "<tomcat home>/libexec/webapps/appname/META-INF/context.xml".
> After
> >>> multiple restarts, none of those seem to change any functionality that
> I
> >>> can see.
> >>>
> >>> By trial and error, I have eventually found that if I follow these
> >> steps, I
> >>> can get the link to work for a little while...
> >>> Deploy the WAR
> >>> Load the page (It works)
> >>> Move index_bs.jsp to index_bs.jsp.bak (in the webapp directory)
> >>> Load the page (404, as expected)
> >>> Create a symbolic link from index_bs.jsp to index_bs.jsp.bak
> >>> Load the page (It works!)
> >>> Edit index_bs.jsp.bak, save
> >>> Load the page (404 again)
> >>>
> >>> This seems very strange to me. Obviously I've reached a point where
> >>> symbolic linking works somewhat, but as soon as I edit the original
> file
> >>> (my main goal here) the link stops working as expected. Does anyone
> know
> >>> what I'm doing wrong here? I must be missing something...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Some information about my setup:
> >>> OSX 10.10.5
> >>> Tomcat 8.0.28 installed with my username running brew brew to
> >>> "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/"
> >>>
> >>
> "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/libexec/webapps/hue-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war"
> >>> deployed successfully to
> >>> "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/libexec/webapps/hue-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/"
> >>> Target file is
> >>> "/Users/uid/mygithub/hue-stuff/hue-web/src/main/webapp/index_bs.jsp"
> >>
> >> If you need an IDE-independent build process (which I highly recommend),
> >> consider something like Apache ant (similar to UNIX "make" but way
> >> better for the Java world) or even Maven, if you don't mind the
> overhead.
> >>
> >> Using symlinks with Tomcat is sometimes problematic, though I can't
> >> explain why it's actually failing for your specific case... I would have
> >> expected that to work.
> >>
> >> -chris
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