My god, I'm sorry. I posted the directory structure wrong.
Web-inf is the root of the project WEB-INF/web.xml WEB-INF/content/*.jsp WEB-INF/src What I posted earlier wouldn't have been a problem at all. Looking at the time, I think my mind was still on autopilot.... The problem is with the content-folder residing in the WEB-INF folder (the theoretical development environment is Novell ExteND or something, which no-one actually uses, but the project structure and ant script are still being used) "I'm not sure there's anything called a "standard J2EE layout"." => I meant the layout of a (exploded) war file. Thanks for your reply, Glen 2007/10/11, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Glen, > > Glen Vermeylen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Recently I moved to a (ancient) project which uses following layout: > > > > content/ > > *.jsp > > /WEB-INF/web.xml, struts-config.xml,... > > /src > > > > I'm used to working in the standard J2EE layout where I can just point > > tomcat to my project directory and it can run the application from > there, > > instantly seeing changes to jsp's and class files. > > I'm not sure there's anything called a "standard J2EE layout". > > > With the current structure this seems impossible, forcing me every time > I > > make a change to rebuild the war and redeploy the application. > > Why not just point Tomcat to the "content" directory instead of the one > above it? > > > Is it possible to run the application from my project folder without > > touching the source layout? > > Of course. Your web application lives in /path/to/content, rather than > /path/to. That can't be hard to deal with. > > - -chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHDlqP9CaO5/Lv0PARAr58AJ9JXRmVdsbvNSxpS8W00s8768MAjwCeJ/Ms > XCATNqAxNCfpnzzbZQ+Tnms= > =lH8T > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >