Many thanks Caldarale. I'm working with tomcat 6, but a I was looking so quickly for an answer that I didn't realise that it was the tomcat 3.2 user manual, but that explained me what happened.
I think that <WatchedResource> will help me for this kind of tasks > From: jmorati...@dit.upm.es [mailto:jmorati...@dit.upm.es] > Subject: Re: About ContainerBackgroundProcessor thread > > > Here is the explanation I found: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-3.2-doc/uguide/tomcat_ug.html > > You can't seriously be using Tomcat 3.2, are you? That hasn't been > supported for eons. > > In regards to your original question, if the reloadable attribute of the > <Context> element is set to true, Tomcat will monitor /classes/ to see if > the webapp has been updated. To quote from current documentation: > > "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." > > You can also use a nested <WatchedResource> element to trigger reloads for > other files; the default is just WEB-INF/web.xml. If you don't set > reloadable and don't specify the file as a <WatchedResource>, Tomcat > should not attempt to do anything with the webapp once it's started. > > But if you really are using Tomcat 3.2, I have no idea what it's behavior > should be; move up to a supported level. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > and its attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
