Re: Automaticaly update the servlets

[Hemant Singh <he...@yahoo.com>]

HI Bill:
Which tomcat version are you using?
As i m reall confident that tomcat do auto- reloading as i never got this
problem,
Well offcourse like most servers, tomcat doesn't seems to reload the helper
classes used by servlets,
Regards
Hemant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boyle, William (CAP, TIP)" <Wi...@gecapital.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: RE: Automaticaly update the servlets


> A little off-topic, but I have found that Tomcat doesnt seem to
auto-reload servlets which are invoked through a RequestDispatcher call
(servlet-chaining).  Would this also be a
> difficult feature to add?
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Layman [mailto:randy.layman@aswethink.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:26 AM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Automaticaly update the servlets
>
>
>
> The problem is that the System class loader (the one that loads your
> CLASSPATH environment variable) is keeping a cache around of the class.
> This is why Milt (correctly) told you to remove the WEB-INF/classes from
> your classpath if you want the auto-reloading to work as it is supposed
to*.
> If the System class loader loads your class then its impossible for Tomcat
> to load it, and if Tomcat doesn't load it in the first place, then it
can't
> unload and reload it.
>
> Randy
>
> * - Many people have problems with the way that auto-reloading works in
> Tomcat.  A large number have problems like yours, and large numbers also
> complain that the auto-reloading doesn't work for non-servlet classes
(which
> it doesn't due to complexity of the problem).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pablo Morillas [mailto:pablo@sortes.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:29 AM
> > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Automaticaly update the servlets
> >
> >
> > Yes, it is in my classpath. But I don't believe that the
> > classpath is the
> > problem becouse when I start Tomcat as a service it runs
> > properly. If I
> > change a .jsp it reload properly.
> > I don't know what is happen but, when I delete the class file from the
> > WEB-INF/classes the servlet run properly (incredible). Then,
> > after I restart
> > the server a error was reported. I compile it another in the
> > WEB-INF/classes
> > without restart Tomcat and it runs ok.
> > I suppose that the servlet file is in any cache of Tomcat,
> > but I can be
> > perfectly wrong. Uses Tomcat any type of GUID to run classes?
> >
> > I don't know what's happen. Please, advice.
> >
> > ==================================
> > Pablo Morillas
> > http://www.sortes.com
> > pablo@sortes.com
> > ==================================
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Milt Epstein" <me...@uiuc.edu>
> > To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: Automaticaly update the servlets
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Pablo Morillas wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Filip.
> > > >
> > > > I didn't know that but, unfortunately the servlet is in the
> > > > WEB-INF/classes directory. The scheme is that I start tomcat and I
> > >
> > > Is WEB-INF/classes in your classpath?  Because it shouldn't
> > be if you
> > > want reloading to work.
> > >
> > >
> > > > get the correct result but, if I change the servlet and compile it
> > > > the output is the same until I restart Tomcat. I've tried
> > to remove
> > > > the class file of the servlet that is in the
> > WEB-INF/classes but the
> > > > page goes up like it would be in a cache. I get the
> > result even the
> > > > class is removed. If I restart tomcat I get the error page saying
> > > > that request didn't be found.
> > > >
> > > > I've readed several mail and I've sincronized the time between my
> > > > box and the server with "net time /domain /set" and I now have the
> > > > same time, but this isn't the solution.
> > > >
> > > > Can anybody help me, becouse I use tomcat like a service in other
> > > > coumputer with IIS and I dn't want to have restart the server
> > > > service when I change anything in any servlet.
> > > >
> > > > Thaks all.
> > > >
> > > > ==================================
> > > > Pablo Morillas
> > > > http://www.sortes.com
> > > > pablo@sortes.com
> > > > ==================================
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Filip Hanik" <ma...@filip.net>
> > > > To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:25 AM
> > > > Subject: RE: Automaticaly update the servlets
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > as long as your servlet classes are under
> > WEB-INF/classes and not
> > > > > WEB-INF/lib Tomcat will reload servlets.
> > > > > and it always reloads JSP pages
> > > > >
> > > > > Filip
> > > > >
> > > > > ~
> > > > > Namaste - I bow to the divine in you
> > > > > ~
> > > > > Filip Hanik
> > > > > Software Architect
> > > > > filip@filip.net
> > > > > www.filip.net
> > > > >
> > > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > > >From: Pablo Morillas [mailto:pablo@sortes.com]
> > > > > >Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:21 PM
> > > > > >To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > > > > >Subject: Automaticaly update the servlets
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Hello all.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I'm starting to use Tomcat and I have seen that I have
> > to restart
> > > > > >the server
> > > > > >when I update a servlet. Is it true? Is there any way
> > to avoid it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Thanks all.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >==================================
> > > > > >Pablo Morillas
> > > > > >http://www.sortes.com
> > > > > >pablo@sortes.com
> > > > > >==================================
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Milt Epstein
> > > Research Programmer
> > > Software/Systems Development Group
> > > Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> > > mepstein@uiuc.edu
> > >
> >