Auto Reload of servlet after compilation

hi,

I use tomcat 4 LE for jdk 1.4. I face a problem like, i had to restart the server each time after modifying and recompiling my servlet. So after doing a small research i found out dis could be solved by adding de following stmt in the server.xml file,

<DefaultContext relodable="true"/>

but even after dis, my servlet is not automatically reloaded.

I tested with jsp and html files, they worked perfectly allright, iam facing trouble only with my servlets.

I also have my browser setting to "check for newer version of the stored page each time i visit the page". But even dis dint help.

Is there any thing i can do abt dis, dis stuff is driving me nuts

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Bharath Chinnadurai
SCJP 1.4

Correct me if I am mistaken, but the modification of the server.xml will require a restart of Tomcat each time you modify the server.xml and from what I understand it is NOT recommended to place <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file. Instead, put them in the META-INF/context.xml directory of your WAR file or in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf directories.

hi Craig,

thx for ur reply. B4 working on ur reply i came across an article which says a different way to reload the servlet after compilation without restarting the tomcat app server. We have to give the url like,

http://localhost/manager/reload?path=/servlet/ReloadServlet

where servlet is my invoker servlet and ReloadServlet is my servlet which has just been modified and re-compiled.

Iam not sure how dis will work b'cos i encounter a different problem now. The moment i give the above url iam prompted for a username and passwd. Iam using binary version of tomcat and iam sure i dint gave any userame or passwd while i configured tomcat. Also i scaned my server.xml file, but dint got hold of any useful stuff. Also i gave my windows username and passwd, all failed.

what is actually dis abt........ wat username and passwd shud i provide to test dis stuff.

TC
Bharath Chinnadurai Maharajan
SCJP 1.4

The manager application requires a password - no default is provided as a security measure. All of this is documented in the tomcat-docs that are typically installed with your tomcat - you might as well learn to use them.
Bill
[ May 25, 2005: Message edited by: William Brogden ]