On 06/09/2019 15:36, Karen Goh wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, September 5, 2019, 9:47:40 PM GMT+8, Mark Thomas > <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Personally, I gave up on using Tomcat and Eclipse in this way a long > time ago. It is a little more work but I run a completely separate > Tomcat instance and then use the "Export...", "WAR file" option to > deploy the latest version of my webapp to the external Tomcat instance > and then let Tomcat's auto-deploy take care of things. > > Hi Mark, > > This is completely new to me. When you said use the "Export" are you > referrring to the Export inside Eclipse?
Yes. Eclipse will export a dynamic web project to a WAR file. > How do you debug without Eclipse then ? I still use Eclipse. I connect to the Tomcat process using remote debugging and debug my way through Tomcat and/or the web application as necessary. Mark > > Apart from those times where I've managed to export to the wrong Tomcat > instance (entirely my own fault) I've never had an issue. > > As an added bonus it makes it easy to debug into the Tomcat code when I > need to but I accept that that is something a Tomcat developer is going > to want to do rather more frequently than someone developing a web app. > > Mark > >> Karen, >> >> On 9/4/19 10:45, Karen Goh wrote: >>> On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 9:32:43 PM GMT+8, Dave Thorn >>> <da...@fysh.org.INVALID> wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 01:21:11PM +0000, Karen Goh wrote: >> >> >>>> I am facing this problem - that Tomcat - 9.0.24 doesn't >>>> refreshes and it will give ma an error, even after I commented >>>> out a line. But, after several cleaning - using Tomcat Directory >>>> clean, right-click on the project in Eclipse and do a run maven >>>> force update and project built, it will still give me an error >>>> that point out to a commented out line. >> >> >>> Do you have a tomcat/work directory? ISTR sometimes having to >> >>> rm -rf /var/cache/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/{webappname} >> >>> Could you let me know how to do it Windows 10 way? Sorry for the >>> trouble cos basically most of my stuff is still using Windows >>> 10.... >> >> C:> DEL /S %CATALINA_BASE%\work\Catalina\localhost\{webappname} >> >> Or just navigate Windows Explorer to the "work" directory and press >> the "DELETE" key on your keyboard. >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> Just to clarify, so instead of doing the clean, I will have to to to this >> place - C:\Program Files\Apache\apache-tomcat-9.0.24\webapps\webappname and >> delete weappname ? >> >> I happened to read this >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/763693/where-is-the-work-directory-located-for-a-tomcat-instance-running-in-eclipse >> >> I checked the location when I right-clicked the Tomcat instance, it says >> meta data, so should I delete the metadata one ? My Tomcat configuration is >> take control of Tomcat installation. >> >> Kindly advise. And thanks for your help. >> >> >> >> >> -chris >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org