Tomcat : Problems loading servlet

[Arun Goel]

Hi,

I am running tomcat as service on Windows 2000.
Everything is fine except when I replace the servlet class file in
Web-inf/classes with an updated servlet class file. Then , if it can't
be loaded from web-browser.
IF I restart the Apache-Tomcat service everything goes fine.
Do I need to do any special settings?

Thanks in advance
Arun

 

[Wendy S]

I am running tomcat as service on Windows 2000.
Everything is fine except when I replace the servlet class file in
Web-inf/classes with an updated servlet class file. Then , if it can't
be loaded from web-browser.
IF I restart the Apache-Tomcat service everything goes fine.
Do I need to do any special settings?

When I replace .class files, I generally reload the context. You don't have
to bring down the entire Servlet container, just the context that you've
made changes to. I use the Manager webapp, which you can get to with
http://localhost:8080/manager/html after setting up a user in
tomcat-users.xml. See the Tomcat welcome page for more info.