Tomcat won't recompile servlet

[bikemh]

With Tomcat/5.5.7, the example servlets are running correctly. But if I
edit the HelloWorldExample source
($catalina_home\webapps\servlets-examples\WEB-INF\classes\HelloWorldExample.java),
the HelloWorldExample servlet does not change. If I use the manager to
reload the context of /servlets-examples, then the manager reports the
msg, "OK - Reloaded application at context path /servlets-examples" but
the servlet is not changed. If I restart Tomcat completely, the servlet
is still not changed.

Why not?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

With Tomcat/5.5.7, the example servlets are running correctly. But if I
edit the HelloWorldExample source
($catalina_home\webapps\servlets-examples\WEB-INF\classes\HelloWorldExample.java),
the HelloWorldExample servlet does not change. If I use the manager to
reload the context of /servlets-examples, then the manager reports the
msg, "OK - Reloaded application at context path /servlets-examples" but
the servlet is not changed. If I restart Tomcat completely, the servlet
is still not changed.

In default setup at least Tomcat does not compile
servlets ever.

You edit the code, you compile, you deploy and
restart app.

Arne

 

[bikemh]

In default setup at least Tomcat does not compile
servlets ever.

You edit the code, you compile, you deploy and
restart app.

thanks, Arne. I am re-acquainting myself with servlets from a few years
ago and was mistaken about tomcat doing autocompiling. I believe,
though, that Resin might have done autocompiling.

Also, since I have now edited tomcat_home/conf/context.xml by changing:
<Context>

to:
<Context reloadable="true">

restarting is not necessary (for the development stage)