dynamically reloading webapps

[Jason Novotny <no...@aei.mpg.de>]

    Hi,

    I'm using Tomcat 4.1.27 and I'm interested in teh features of the 
manager webapp.
Specifically I have a "suite" of web applications. One web application, 
call it "master" is a webapplication that requires access to the 
ServletContext objects of the other web applications, so I have 
configured the server.xml with the following:

    <Context path="/master" docBase="gridsphere" debug="0" 
reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
          <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" 
prefix="localhost_master_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
        </Context>

    OK, now my question is it possible to use the manager webapp, so 
that can I dynamically reload one of the slave applications. However, my 
"master" webappliation then needs to get the new servlet context of the 
redeployed slave webapplication-- does this mean I also have to reload 
my "master" webapplication as well? Any experience from others that have 
done this is much appreciated.

    Thanks, Jason