My apologies - worked as advertised! The only thing I noticed is that it restarts the webapp right away - and all of the webapps that depend on the class.
Is there way to make the webapp restart only when a page is requested and only the webapp that's being used? Thanks again! --- On Tue, 5/19/09, Dola Woolfe <dolac...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Dola Woolfe <dolac...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: How to hot swap classes? > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:51 PM > > You mean like this > > <Context reloadable="true"> > > in tomcat/conf/context.xml > > Seems to have had no effect. > > > > --- On Tue, 5/19/09, Anurag Kapur <anuragka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > From: Anurag Kapur <anuragka...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: How to hot swap classes? > > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > > Cc: "Tom Cat" <tomcat-u...@jakarta.apache.org> > > Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:36 PM > > Refer : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html > > > > reloadable > > > > Set to true if you want Catalina to monitor classes > in > > /WEB-INF/classes/ and > > /WEB-INF/lib for changes, and automatically reload the > web > > application if a > > change is detected. This feature is very useful > during > > application > > development, but it requires significant runtime > overhead > > and is not > > recommended for use on deployed production > applications. > > That's why the > > default setting for this attribute is *false*. You can > use > > the > > Manager<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/manager-howto.html>web > > application, however, to trigger reloads of deployed > > applications on > > demand. > > Regards > > Anurag > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Anurag Kapur > > Associate - Technology, > > Sapient Corporation. > > > > +44 (0) 7514 996 586 > > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragkapur > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom > > > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Dola Woolfe <dolac...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > When developing a web application I change my > classes > > all the time and > > > therefore need to restart tomcat every time. Is > there > > a way to avoid > > > restarting tomcat? Could it hot swap the new > class > > in? > > > > > > (It does somehow hot swap recompiled .jsp's > doesn't > > it?) > > > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > > > > > Dola > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
