For the record, I'm a bit superstitious about this. I'm using webapp
folders as opposed to WARs and I always stop Tomcat during `ant update`. :)
Alan
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Brown, Jacob wrote:
> In what situations, if ever, is it safe to run `ant update` while Tomcat
> is running?
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> I’ve mapped my webapps for Tomcat using “Technique A” (defining a context
> that points to [dspace]/webapps/[app]).
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> In a development environment, I’ve played around with running `ant update`
> while Tomcat is running. Most of the time, Tomcat seems to reload the web
> application appropriately and continues to serve requests. Occasionally I
> will get errors or a blank page after doing so, which continue until I
> restart Tomcat (which resolves the issue).
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> Would using WARs make this safe? That is, if I added the “-Dwars=true”
> option to `ant update` and updated my Tomcat contexts to point to
> [dspace]/webapps/[app].war instead, would it be okay to update my webapps
> while Tomcat is running? Or is there other stuff going on in `ant update`
> that is potentially going to break Tomcat?
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> Thanks,
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> Jacob
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