RE: servlet/application reloading

Take a look at the Server.AutoReload parameter in your application conf
file. 

Jeremy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonas Oberg
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Enhydra: servlet/application reloading
> 
> 
> Greetings list members!
> 
> In an attempt to avoid using Tomcat for our students (for 
> reasons best left alone, but sufficient to say is that it 
> pretty much sucks for our use), I have tackled Enhydra to see 
> if we could use that instead.
> 
> What we have is about 100 (possibly more, continuously 
> increasing) web applications, one for each user that has 
> enabled such a thing. These applications are servlet 2.2 web 
> applications, and can thus be defined something like this in 
> multiserver.conf;
> 
>   Application.WarExample.Description = "User s01donald"
>   Application.WarExample.DocRoot = "/home/s01donald/.servlets"
>   Application.WarExample.Running = yes
> 
> This works reasonably well for the limited tests I've done. 
> However, it takes Enhydra a fair bit of time to start up 
> (remember, there's a lot of applications starting here), so 
> we don't like to do that more than once a day or so.
> 
> But of course, the applications are under heavy development 
> (especially now, when finals are due any day), so they change 
> constantly.
> 
> I have searched hi and low (and the question has been asked 
> before), but I can't find any way in which I can have Enhydra 
> notice that their class files have changed and upon detecting 
> such a thing, reload the application.
> 
> Surely this must be possible?
> 
> -- 
> Jonas Öberg
> Systems administrator/webmaster, Department of Informatics, 
> School of Economics and Commercial Law, Gothenburg 
> University. Phone. +46-31-7732717, Fax. +47-31-7734754 
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