when to restart tomcat

[paritosh ranjan]

Do I need to restart tomcat when I change my deployment descriptor(web.xml)?

[Ulf Dittmer]

No, that's not necessary. It's sufficient to reload the web application whose web.xml file you have changed.

[paritosh ranjan]

Is there any event after which we must start tomcat?
or reloading helps every time

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you make changes to the Tomcat configuration (as opposed to changes to one of its web app's configuations) you need to restart the server. Any of the files in TOMCAT_HOME/conf would be examples of this.

[paritosh ranjan]

thanks a lot