I'm just getting started with servlet/jsp. I've been jumping around to
the different servers and I'm supportive of the open-source nature of
Tomcat. But there's a feature in Resin that I really appreciate and I'm
curious if Tomcat supports anything similar.
Example app structure:
/webapp
/webapp/WEB-INF/
/webapp/WEB-INF/src
/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
-snip-
Resin has a "recompile" attribute in its configuration. I can point it
to look for .java files in /webapp/WEB-INF/src and it will compile them
to /webapp/WEB-INF/classes when changes occur. I think this is
outstanding during development. With Tomcat 4.0b5 I've set up an Ant
build.xml file in my /webapp/WEB-INF/src directory so I run Ant and then
restart Tomcat, which accomplishes the same thing as the aforementioned
Resin configuration. Do any of the JSP/Tomcat gurus out there have a
better method for development?
Sometimes Tomcat will reload a webapp when the classes dir changes,
sometimes it won't. It's a crapshoot for me.
Thanks,
-rr
