dynamic/hot deployment

["Peake, Chris" <Ch...@ca.com>]

How are users approaching hot deployment issues.
If using Axis and you deploy a 'HelloWorld' class that returns 'Hello', this works great.

But if you want to change the 'HellowWorld' class to now return 'Howdy',
or if you want to add a new method to the class, it does not work.

The 'first version' of the class is getting loaded by the classloader.
It is not a war file so no chance for detection by server to reload 'web application'.
Stopping and starting tomcat of course solves the problem.
But that is not an acceptable solution in a production environment.

How can this be accomplished 'without' bringing down Tomcat?

I must be missing something basic.  Thanks in advance.

chris

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