On 10/02/2010 09:08, Jan Van Besien wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using tomcat-6.0.18 with java-1.6.0-18 on ubuntu-9.10. > > I have a question about the feature to automatically deploy war files > when they are dropped in the webapps directory. Sometimes, this doesn't > work as I would expect it to work, and I want to find out if this is > expected or if something can be done about it. > > Allow me to describe a scenario: > > - tomcat is not running > - copy a war file (say test.war) to the webapps directory > - start tomcat > > now everything is ok, the test.war file gets "exploded" into a test > directory, and the application is deployed. > > - stop tomcat > - corrupt some files in the exploded directory (e.g. remove all > libraries from WEB-INF/lib) > - touch test.war, such that it is certainly newer than then exploded > directory > - start tomcat > > now the deployment fails, while I would expect tomcat to explode the > test.war file again, because it is newer than the exploded directory. > > Am I making wrong assumptions? The documantation [1] explicetely says > "... and it is newer than the exploded web application, the exploded > directory will be removed and the webapp will be redeployed from the .WAR". > > Thanks in advance, > Jan Van Besien > > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/deployer-howto.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
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