tomcat deployment

[karim tazibt]

Hi all,
I am looking for a way to deploy my web application in tomcat without using a war.
In fact, as I am doing lot of tests. it's really not convenient to (generate a war, deploy, changes, undeploy, generate a war deploy,,,)

So if you have a tip for me.
Thanks

[Misha Ver]

karim tazibt wrote:In fact, as I am doing lot of tests. it's really not convenient to (generate a war, deploy, changes, undeploy, generate a war deploy,,,

The best solution would be to automate all these tasks. Take a look on Executing Manager Commands With Ant

[Tim Holloway]

You have to use a WAR. Per the J2EE standard, webapps are WARs or EARs. And Tomcat doesn't do EARs.

However, you can save a little time by using an "exploded" WAR and referencing an in-project copy.

An exploded WAR is what you get when you unzip a WAR file. If you deploy using a docBase that's a directory instead of a ".war" file, Tomcat will assume that you're deploying an exploded WAR. If you define a context file in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost, the docBase for that context can reference a directory within your development project. Since most project development systems these days marshall all the webapp components into an exploded WAR directory before zipping them up to produce the .war file that allows you to skip a few steps.

[karim tazibt]

Tim Holloway wrote:You have to use a WAR. Per the J2EE standard, webapps are WARs or EARs. And Tomcat doesn't do EARs.

However, you can save a little time by using an "exploded" WAR and referencing an in-project copy.

An exploded WAR is what you get when you unzip a WAR file. If you deploy using a docBase that's a directory instead of a ".war" file, Tomcat will assume that you're deploying an exploded WAR. If you define a context file in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost, the docBase for that context can reference a directory within your development project. Since most project development systems these days marshall all the webapp components into an exploded WAR directory before zipping them up to produce the .war file that allows you to skip a few steps.

It's what I am looking for, can you explain the step to deploy an exploded war

Thanks

[Richard Golebiowski]

If you are doing development and testing, this isn't an efficient way to work. I don't know what your development environment is, but using something like Eclipse with the Sysdeo plugin would be much more productive.

[karim tazibt]

Richard Golebiowski wrote:If you are doing development and testing, this isn't an efficient way to work. I don't know what your development environment is, but using something like Eclipse with the Sysdeo plugin would be much more productive.

Hi,
I am developing some web applications under tomcat using Eclipse and Sysdeo, but don't know how to deploy it effenciently without generating a war each time I append something.
Acctually, I am using the interface of tomcat as following:
In eclipse, for each modification, creating a war,
In tomcat, undeployement, deployment,
and so one.

It could be brilliant if I can get arround this heavy procedure which consumes a lot of time
Thanks

[Richard Golebiowski]

Then you definitely need to check out the Sysdeo plugin. It will save you a lot of time.

[karim tazibt]

Richard Golebiowski wrote:Then you definitely need to check out the Sysdeo plugin. It will save you a lot of time.

Do you have any link or tuto about how to use sysdeo for web deployment because, in google; I havent found any thing explicit:
I am sure it"s not diffuclt to manage it; but so fare; I couldnt
Thanks for your help

[Richard Golebiowski]

You should be able to find all the information you need here.