Re: Any Jakart news?

[James Duncan Davidson <du...@x180.com>]

> >Also,    I've been developing JSP apps in the Sun Java Web Server.  Every
> >time I make a change to an external class, I have to restart the web server
> >in order to access the changes.  Is this going to be the case with  Jakarta?
> 
> I assume you mean an external class used by a servlet or JSP ?  Yes that would
> be annoying.
> I am not sure if the initial code drop will have this problem, but we should fix
> it. This is
> probably a custom classloader bug (?)

JSPs don't rely upon a custom class loader for reloading. Since the
class is recompiled, the implementation just makes a unique class name
(such as Foo_jsp_01) and loads the new class.

As far as servlet reloading, that's not coded in yet. 

.duncan