[Alan Hay]

I am having trouble seeing changes made to a web app deployed to Tomcat 5.5 using the hot deploy functionality.

While changes changes to classes are being reloaded okay, I cannot see any changes to JSP pages without reloading the webapp.

The changed files are synched in the webapps directory however the changes are not visible – even if I clear out the compiled servlets in the work directory.

I have another project deployed which works as expected. The only thing I can think off is that it is something to do with having a context.xml file located in WebRoot/META-INF, the project I am having problems with having this and the other not.

Any ideas anyone?

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<!-- CONTEXT FILE FOR TRIAL DEPLOYMENT -->

<Context displayName="Local Test" debug="8" reloadable="true" antiResourceLocking="true" cookies="true" crossContext="false" 
            docBase="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/TestApp">

        <Resource     name="jdbc/abcl"
                    auth="Container"
                    type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
                    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/abc"
                    username="x"
                    password="y"
                    maxActive="20"
                    maxIdle="10"
                    maxWait="-1"
                    removeAbandoned="true"
                    removeAbandonedTimeout="10"
                    logAbandoned="true"  />
    
    <!--  
    <Manager pathname="" />
    -->
</Context>

[Alan Hay]

Okay.

Found the answer here:

http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-10181.html

Having the antiResourceLocking attribute set to true was the issue.

Cheers.

[Alan Hay]

Okay, I now have JSP files reloading but since I set antiResourceLocking=”false”, Tomcat is now doing a full reload whenever I change a class file.

15-May-2009 15:07:12 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext reload
INFO: Reloading this Context has started

Ideas?

Thanks.

[Alan Hay]

Okay, set the reloadable attribute to false and everything now seems to be working as expected.

Alan

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