Server Reloading classes

[dh...@lexmark.com]

Hi everyone.

After a very frustrating time trying to get Tomcat reloading to work, and trying
to do so with v4, I finally discovered that it is only version 4.0 b1 (and not
b2 or b3) in which this DOES work (see
http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg16410.html)

Can be downloaded from:
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b1/

Thought some others out there might find this useful.

Dave

Re: Server Reloading classes

[William Jaynes <wj...@mediaone.net>]

I'll say. I spent quite a while trying to get the reloading to work in Tomcat4. Everyone kept
insisting that it "just worked". I finally switched to Resin and am very happy because it really
does "just work". Plus it detects almost any change, from it's own config file, to a new war file,
to any file under the WEB-INF classes and lib directories.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Bell" <be...@dsg-inc.com>
To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Server Reloading classes


> It's good to see I'm not alone...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dh...@lexmark.com>
> To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:38 PM
> Subject: Server Reloading classes
>
>
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > After a very frustrating time trying to get Tomcat reloading to work, and
> trying
> > to do so with v4, I finally discovered that it is only version 4.0 b1 (and
> not
> > b2 or b3) in which this DOES work (see
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg16410.html)
> >
> > Can be downloaded from:
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b1/
> >
> > Thought some others out there might find this useful.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>

Re: Server Reloading classes

[Mike Bell <be...@dsg-inc.com>]

It's good to see I'm not alone...

----- Original Message -----
From: <dh...@lexmark.com>
To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Server Reloading classes


>
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> After a very frustrating time trying to get Tomcat reloading to work, and
trying
> to do so with v4, I finally discovered that it is only version 4.0 b1 (and
not
> b2 or b3) in which this DOES work (see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg16410.html)
>
> Can be downloaded from:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b1/
>
> Thought some others out there might find this useful.
>
> Dave
>
>

Re: Server Reloading classes

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 dhay@lexmark.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> After a very frustrating time trying to get Tomcat reloading to work, and trying
> to do so with v4, I finally discovered that it is only version 4.0 b1 (and not
> b2 or b3) in which this DOES work (see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg16410.html)
> 
> Can be downloaded from:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b1/
> 
> Thought some others out there might find this useful.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 

There is one and only one place that you can put your classes and have
them trigger automatic reloading -- in the WEB-INF/classes directory of
your web application.  Placing them anywhere else will *not* trigger
reloading.  You also have to set up a <Context> entry for this application
that includes reloadable="true" in its attributes.

However, you do have another option with Tomcat 4 -- use the manager
appliation to trigger reloading manually.  The first thing you have to do
is create a user in the "conf/tomcat-users.xml" file that is assigned the
role "manager" (because the manager application is protected by a security
constraint).  Now, if you want to reload your application mounted on
context path "/myapp", simply open a new browser window and go to

	http://localhost:8080/manager/reload?path=/myapp

and answer the username/password questions (the first time).  This will
reload your application unconditionally, so it's quite useful when you
changed something like your application resources file, rather than
recompiling a class.

If you still have problems with reloading in Tomcat, you should report a
bug to the bug tracking system

	http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/

under product category "Tomcat 4".

Craig