I'm facing two problems with a newly created web app.
Firstly, Tomcat will not recognize it as a web app, although it contains a WEB-INF directory with a valid web.xml file inside of it. Trying to access it results in "this resource is not available". Adding a file-based Context element in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost solves the problem, but I thought directories inside of the webapps directory that contains a WEB-INF directory would automatically be recognized as a web app?
Secondly, the app can't be reloaded correctly through the admin web app. The context reloadable attribute is set to true (and listed as such in the manager web app), but although the log files say that the context was reloaded, the changes in the class files are not picked up. Restarting Tomcat fixes this, but it's rather time-consuming.
Does either of these ring a bell with anyone? This is with Tomcat 5.5 on OS X 10.4 running Java 1.5.
Do you mean appBase? No, this is pretty much a stock TC installation. The other apps in the "webapps" directory are recognized just fine.
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It rings a bell with me...I saw the same error maybe six months ago. Tomcat 5.5, Java 5 on XP. I can't remember the exact solution, but I remember it was not intuitive...and that I debugging it by piecemeal removal of parts of my webapp.
Pain. I remember pain.
"This is not to say that design is unnecessary. But after a certain point, design is just speculation." --Philip Chu
Do you have any static references to objects who's classes reside in common/lib or shared/lib? If so, they would be handled by a classloader that isn't reset when your application is reloaded.
Originally posted by Ben Souther: Do you have any static references to objects who's classes reside in common/lib or shared/lib? If so, they would be handled by a classloader that isn't reset when your application is reloaded.
That I do, but it's not just those classes that do not get reloaded, it's all classes.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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