----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta ANT User's List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 00:12 Subject: Ant task for redeploying web applications on Tomcat
> Hello, > > I searched the mail archives and couldn't find any tasks for redeploying web > applications on Tomcat, so I wrote one myself this afternoon (very > bare-bones... it doesn't check for errors, all exceptions will stop the > build). If anyone is interested they can download it from > http://www.java-internals.com/code/index.html. > > -Chris > > P.S. It relies on the http-client commons package available from Jakarta. > I've included it in my distribution of the tomcat-deploy task > > P.P.S. Any suggestions or contributions would be appreciated. I have looked into dooing this; right now I can do it with a <get> in the system. To get it work properly I think I'd need to change tomcat's manager class. I'd be interested to know how you worked around the problems I encountered 1. the upload mechanism where you provide a url to a remote WAR file does not do hot updates after the first upload; from then on tomcat goes 'there is a local copy so lets just start that' 2. the servlet responses are not easily parsable: you might think they are but since they are 18in-izabe resource strings they may be different on different locales The fixes I'd have to do: XML response from the servlet and better reload behavior would both be tomcat side; once they were done it would make sense to include the task in the tomcat codebase, rather than ant, so it will be in sync better. -steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
