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I’ve encountered having deployed a web app to tomcat 5.5 and failed to update the build found in the catalina folder?
Is there’s any way to fix it?
failed to update the build found in the catalina folder?
Can you please clarify what you mean, I don’t understand what the problem is.
For example, I’ve removed a simple javascript alert message in a jsp page i’m making. When I save it while having tomcat running in the background, it should be able to do a hot swap. However, it failed to do that. So, I terminate my tomcat server and redeployed my app to make sure my changes are already there. However, when I started it back on then browsed into the jsp, the alert message is still there.
I’m speculating that tomcat fails to rebuild the jsp classes found in its tomcat5.5/work/catalina/localhost folder (where jsp converted to classes are there). I had to delete my web app folder there to force tomcat to make a new build everytime I made changes in my jsp pages.
Is there any way to fix this?
RAD,
In order for hotswap to work, you NEED to be using an exploded deployment, if you are using an exploded deployment then as soon as you save a JSP page, it is immediately copied out to the app server ontop of the existing JSP page under the /webapps/<yourapp> directory somewhere. Tomcat should pick up the timestamp difference and rebuild it to the /work/Catalina/localhost/<yourapp> directory, first to a translated Java file, then a compiled class file.
