I've found this article helpful in the past: http://whatwouldnickdo.com/wordpress/157/tomcat-images-directory/
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Ermal Aliraj <ermal.ali...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > can anyone help me, if there is a configuration parameter in tomcat, which > permit to the web application to auto-recognize when I put an image from > filesystem into the webapp? > > I put images in the path of my application: appBase/webAppA/uploads through > another webAppB, but seems that webAppA recognizes the images only after > Tomcat restart. > Working until now with tomcat integrated into eclipse, I didn't noticed > this event because eclipse was publishing automatically after each upload. > > Thank you to anyone for any kind of help. > > Ermal >