Hi Simon, It has been so long that I don't remember for certain why the Tomcat work directory needed cleaning. I'm fairly sure there was a reason. A guess is that Tag libraries destined to be in a jar wouldn't pickup changes when you used "Serve modules without publishing". Tomcat would cache data in the work directory about the Tag library and assumed that since the Tag library was supposedly coming from a jar, if it found the cached data, it didn't need to reprocess the Tag library. I should probably check Tomcat 8 and perhaps Tomcat 7 to see if Tag libraries are still handled this way.
Cheers, Larry From: wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:wtp-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Wang, Simon Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:57 AM To: wtp-dev@eclipse.org Subject: [wtp-dev] [Tomcat-WTP-Hotswap] Why clean up server every time even there is only one resource file change? Hi, Team, I'm using Kepler-SR2 and using WTP-3.5.2 to work on a J2EE project. My problem is: After started server, I change one js file, save it. After "publishing to server...", I notice "workspace\sample-js-issue\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\work\Catalina\localhost" is cleaned up. You know all JSP compiled classes and tag files there. That means if I change any resources, WTP tomcat plugin will clean up those files, when I access page again, will regenerate them again. That's time consuming task. I went through "org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core" code. Here is my finding: TomcatServerBehaviour.publishServer(), this method will be triggered, and it will clean up server (include above "work" directory ). But point is: why only js/css resources change, need to clean up "work" directory? I added a patch to avoid run "publishServer", it won't remove "work" folder anymore. And tried different hotswap features, it works fine. So want to double confirm with you guys, is there any special reasons to run "publishServer" everytime? Regards Simon
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