Hi all, how do I deploy a webapp from the ant deploy task avoiding it to copy the entire application under tomcat/webapps? The point is to simply update my build directory with modified jsps to make tomcat aware of the changes. If this build directory, which of course is not under webapps, is first copied under webapps by the ant deploy task, then nothing is updated there each time I build the app, and instead I have to explicitly redeploy it. One solution that comes to my mind is to deploy an xml context descriptor instead of a exploded war directory. But anyway, from the documentation here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/appdev/source.html http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/appdev/processes.html I would infer that deploying my application by means of a target like <target name="tomcat-deploy" depends="init,build,init-ant" description="Deploy application to servlet container"> <tomcat-deploy url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" path="${tomcat.context.path}" war="file://${project.build.path}" /> </target> will in principle install the application into tomcat without copying it into webapps, which in practice it doesn't. The following excerpts from the above links seem to support my supposition: """ For interactive development and testing of your web application using Tomcat 5, the following additional targets are defined: * install - Tell the currently running Tomcat 5 to make the application you are developing immediately available for execution and testing. This action does not require Tomcat 5 to be restarted, but it is also not remembered after Tomcat is restarted the next time. """ (notice that the install target uses the deploy task, despite of its name) """ # Modify and rebuild as needed. As you discover that changes are required, make those changes in the original source files, not in the output build directory, and re-issue the ant compile command. This ensures that your changes will be available to be saved (via cvs commit) later on -- the output build directory is deleted and recreated as necessary. # Reload the application. Tomcat will recognize changes in JSP pages automatically, but it will continue to use the old versions of any servlet or JavaBean classes until the application is reloaded. You can trigger this by executing the ant reload command. """ Can you help me? I find this very confusing. Thank you in advance. Regards, Carlos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
