Redeployment shortcuts anyone?

[easter <ea...@free.fr>]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had development any shortcuts (or I'm missing 
something big in Axis) to help me speed up development of my web service.
Each time I modify it's code, I recopy the jar files to the Axis root, 
and do an undeploy/deploy as usual, followed by a stop/start of my Tomcat
server so the new classes will be loaded.

This takes and unreasonable amount of my time, so surely I'm not the 
first one to have this problem.
Is there no mechanism like the Tomcat deploy/undeploy which uses a 
different classloader each time something is deployed?

I'm also pretty amazed that the Axis deployment doesn't allow you to 
upload your files, rather than copy them directly to a disk location,
although I suppose this would be planned for some later version.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated to help my speed up my 
development iterations.

Cheers.
WH

Re: Redeployment shortcuts anyone?

[James Waldrop <su...@well.com>]

I do two things to reload my class files:

server.xml:
<Context path="/axis" docBase="/home/james/axis" debug="1" 
reloadable="true">

The second is that all my files are in their own JAR in
~/axis/WEB-INF/lib

The reloadable flag plus using the Axis lib means that the JAR is 
reloaded within 5s of being updated (and of course there are lots of 
ways to update the JAR).

Mostly this works, every now and then I have to restart Tomcat, but it's 
very rare.

James

Re: Redeployment shortcuts anyone?

[Albert Bupp <al...@backsoft.com>]

Here's a set of ANT targets which we've been using on tomcat-3.3.1 & 
weblogic-7.0. Of course, you'll need to fill in the referenced property 
values for your system.

<target name="generate_service" depends="init">
     <javac srcdir="${build}"
            includes="**\*.java"
            destdir="${build}"
            debug="${debug}"
            optimize="${optimize}"
            verbose="${verbose}"
            classpath="${service.libs}" />
     <jar jarfile="${build}\${service.lib}"
          basedir="${build}"
          includes="**\*.class" />

     <copy file="${build}\${service.lib}" todir="${axis.path}" 
overwrite="yes" />

     <!-- force app server to reload lib path -->
     <touch>
         <fileset dir="${axis.path}\.." />
     </touch>
</target>

<target name="deploy_service" depends="init">
     <property name="deploy.cp" value="${axis.libs};${service.libs}" />
     <echo message="using classpath: ${deploy.cp}" />
     <java classname="org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient" fork="yes">
         <arg value="${build}\deploy.wsdd" />
         <arg value="-l${axis.url}/AdminService" />
         <classpath path="${deploy.cp}" />
     </java>
</target>


At 05:27 PM 5/16/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>You could use ant task to automatize all this process (compilation,
>copy, start stop of tomcat). deploy undeploy can be made with ant too
>(<java> task ...) ! It will save you a lot of time :)
>
>Regards
>Guillaume
>
>easter wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had development any shortcuts (or I'm missing
> > something big in Axis) to help me speed up development of my web service.
> > Each time I modify it's code, I recopy the jar files to the Axis root,
> > and do an undeploy/deploy as usual, followed by a stop/start of my Tomcat
> > server so the new classes will be loaded.
> >
> > This takes and unreasonable amount of my time, so surely I'm not the
> > first one to have this problem.
> > Is there no mechanism like the Tomcat deploy/undeploy which uses a
> > different classloader each time something is deployed?
> >
> > I'm also pretty amazed that the Axis deployment doesn't allow you to
> > upload your files, rather than copy them directly to a disk location,
> > although I suppose this would be planned for some later version.
> >
> > Any clues would be greatly appreciated to help my speed up my
> > development iterations.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > WH

Re: Redeployment shortcuts anyone?

[Guillaume Sauthier <Gu...@Bull.Net>]

You could use ant task to automatize all this process (compilation,
copy, start stop of tomcat). deploy undeploy can be made with ant too
(<java> task ...) ! It will save you a lot of time :)

Regards
Guillaume

easter wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had development any shortcuts (or I'm missing
> something big in Axis) to help me speed up development of my web service.
> Each time I modify it's code, I recopy the jar files to the Axis root,
> and do an undeploy/deploy as usual, followed by a stop/start of my Tomcat
> server so the new classes will be loaded.
> 
> This takes and unreasonable amount of my time, so surely I'm not the
> first one to have this problem.
> Is there no mechanism like the Tomcat deploy/undeploy which uses a
> different classloader each time something is deployed?
> 
> I'm also pretty amazed that the Axis deployment doesn't allow you to
> upload your files, rather than copy them directly to a disk location,
> although I suppose this would be planned for some later version.
> 
> Any clues would be greatly appreciated to help my speed up my
> development iterations.
> 
> Cheers.
> WH