Automatically Reloading Servlets in tomcat

[Afroz Ahmed]

Hello All,

I am a learner.I want my tomcat 4.1 to automatically reload my servlet class when it was changed.

This is my server.xml file contents line for my appl

<Context path="/app" docBase="e:/progra~1/Tomcat_app/webapps/app1" debug="0"
reloadable="true" crossContext="true">

Later I also added DefaultContext element to host element.

<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<DefaultContext reloadable="true"/>

When i do changes to my servlet and do compilation,replace the files,the tomcat is not taking the changes.When i restart the tomcat, then the changes were working fine.

Pl tell me what was the problem or show me the correct way to do it.

Thanks.

[William Brogden]

Personally I use the Tomcat Management Application - it lets you unload and reload a specific web application. According to the specs, reloadable="true" should work by monitoring the timestamps on the .class and .jar files - I dunno why it doesn't in some installations.
Bill

[Bear Bibeault]

There are some known problems in Tomcat 4 (specifically with 4.1.27 if I recall) with reloading. Tomcat 5 seems to have solved these issues (and I believe there is a patch for 4.1.27 but I can't vouch for it).

[Afroz Ahmed]

Thanks.

I will try with the Tomcat Manager Application.How to configure for that.

Later,I will do my appl in tomcat 5.

Thanks a lot.