[lukmanph]

Hi everyone

My environment

Eclipse 3.1
Myeclipse 4.0.3
JDK 1.4.2
winXP
Tomcat 5.0.28

I’m having a situation whereby everytime I change a line of code while Tomcat is running, the whole application gets reloaded. It didn’t happen with previous versions of MyEclipse.
Is this a normal behaviour? or is there any setting that can be configured?
thanks in advance
Patria

[Riyad Kalla]

Patria,
If you want this to stop, you can set your context in Tomcat to “reloadable=false”. Otherwise every time it detects a chance it will reload.

[lukmanph]

do you mean in the conf/server.xml file for Tomcat??

[fmbraga]

Might be. But (s)he was meaning to go into tomcat’s admin application, and change it there.

[lukmanph]

ok i see, cause i changed it directly in the xml file under {CATALINA_HOME}/conf/localhost/ and still is not working…

[Scott Anderson]

This is peculiar because we don’t do *anything* in MyEclipse (any version) to force applications to completely reload. When Java code is changed, the debugger updates that class in the server JVM directly, but only the modified class. For JSP’s, we update the deployments automatically upon change and the server will recompile / reload them at the next access. For Tomcat, the only way (other than the admin console) that I know of to force the entire application to reload is to touch the web.xml file (which is handy, but doesn’t sound like what you’re doing here).

[lukmanph]

Hi Scott

it’s really weird anyway. the only thing i can do to avoid the complete reload of the application when there is a change in the code is to declare my webapp as the default one.
However, I did notice that when changing the web.xml file the reloading occurs.
as from now, i’ll just leave it as it is…
thanks for your reply
Patria

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