My understanding is that you need to have
<orion-web-app development="true" source-directory="drive:path" ... />
Also, any objects stored in the HttpSession must be implementing
Serializable or you'll have problems.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:58 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Using "development=true"
>
>
> Is anyone successfully using the development="true" option for web
> applications where the web application classes and the non-web
> application classes share the same root directory?
>
> For example, if you have all your classes rooted in
> d:/projects/com/xyz/, you can point the reloading classloader to this
> directory by adding the following to the global-web-application.xml
> file...
>
> <orion-web-app
> jsp-cache-directory="file:d:/orion/persistence/jsp"
> servlet-webdir="/servlet"
> development="true"
> autoreload-jsp-beans="true">
>
> <classpath path="file:/d:/projects" />
> ...
> </orion-web-app>
>
> The servlet engine will automatically compile and reload servlets (and
> referenced beans) contained within this root directory that have been
> edited.
>
> However, if you add the same directory to the application.xml file, as
> in...
>
> <library path="file:/d:/projects" />
>
> then the standard (non-reloading) classloader will take precedence over
> the reloading classloader used by the web application, and edited
> servlet files will no longer be reloaded.
>
> I understand that I could break up my directory hierarchy into two
> separate roots, for example
>
> d:/projects/apps/com/xyz/...
> d:/projects/web-apps/com/xyz/...
>
> and use the d:/projects/apps in the application.xml and the
> d:/projects/web-apps in the global-web-application.xml. I also
> understand that these apps could be deployed as separate JAR and WAR
> files, but this isn't very convenient in development mode.
>
> It's common to root all classes in a single directory, so I'm
> interested to hear how others may be tackling this problem.
>
> Mike
>
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