Hi, Because you may have changed the contents of the unpacked directory, and a redeployment of the WAR (which includes unpacking it) would overwrite your changes. We'd rather be extra careful and require the user to explicitly redeploy the app via the manager (or whatever mechanism he/she wants to use).
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonathan Eric Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:20 PM >To: Tomcat User List >Subject: Why don't updated unpacked WAR files get reloaded automatically? > >I noticed that if you have "unpackWARs" set to false and you update a WAR >file, it doesn't reload it. > >According to the Tomcat documentation at the following link, it only does >it >for unpacked WAR files. Why? > >http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0- >doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment > >Jon > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]