Yes Rainer, just what you say. I know that using watchresource will restart all servlets. I just want to restart one servlet, not all.
Does tomcat provide a solution to restart a specified servlet when a resource changes??? I don't want to get all my web application restarted. > On 27.09.2010 15:42, jmorati...@dit.upm.es wrote: >> >> 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 > > Note that the watched resources means Tomcat will reload the webapp. I > had the impression, you wanted to use a self-made mechanism that watches > a resource and does some internal reconfiguration when the resource > changes - but not a complete reload of the webapp. > > Regards, > > Rainer > > >>> 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
