Peter,
We use
Ant to move the files to the deploy directory and use touch task to re-start the server, to pick the new files.
But i would liked to know is there anyway we can make the app to pick the new class file without re-starting (through touch task) the application.
The main purpose of why i am looking forward is, restarting the app takes 8 mins.
Since we have lot of EJB's it takes some time to undeploy and re-deploy the EJB's.
And also EJB's are not changed frequently. But we work at the web layer (
servlet or Action class). So i would want to know is there any way we can load the latest class file without re-starting the server.