Hi Greg, > You should not need to reload tomcat for code unless NetBeans cannot handle > hot reload.
I don't believe that there is a problem with NetBeans, it updates the active code files in the WEB_APP/classes perfectly, but then as previously discussed in the other thread, there is no file locking (not possible) and as soon as multiple files need recompiling (in my case a listener and a class) we risk having an unstable deployment, albeit for a fraction of a second. Tomcat detects the first file change and that triggers the reload of the webapp. However, the listener class (in my case) is still being created / updated and causes Tomcat to crash (understandably so). Weirdly enough, I never had an issue until I upgraded to Tomcat 10, but I suspect that was a fluke of the project I was working on rather than the upgrade. I mainly create Java Servlets (brilliant API by the way) and so am installing many small individual class files. > I would stop and restart tomcat for method signature changes, new classes > etc. It's quick and stops reload issues. You are right, Tomcat is ridiculously fast to Start / Stop (2 mouse clicks for me, 5 seconds). In fact when I first installed Tomcat that is how I operated until I discovered reloadable - and I fall into that historic stereotypical old-school developer type labelled 'lazy', true in my case. I could now halve the number of keystrokes (and shave 5 seconds off my deploy) so now it was F11 (recompile), F5 (browser refresh). Of course, once you have been tempted by the serpent, it is so hard to have your candy taken away from you hence me spending a week attempting to install Tomcat and implement some protection for this scenario :) John On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 08:10, Greg Huber <gregh3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There have been lots of emails on this, sorry if I have missed something.. > > Although I don't use net beans, I use Eclipse with the venerable Sysdeo > Tomcat Plugin (modified), and from my experience set reloadable = > "false". I would stop and restart tomcat for method signature changes, > new classes etc. It's quick and stops reload issues. > > You should not need to reload tomcat for code unless, net beans cannot > handle hot reload. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
