RE: Using Kawa with Apache Tomcat

[Tony West <tonys-mailbox@hotmail.com>]

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> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:44:17 -0700
> From: per@bothner.com
> To: tonys-mailbox@hotmail.com; kawa@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: Using Kawa with Apache Tomcat
>
> Well, it works for me ...
>
> Note that Tomcat doesn't seem to automatically re-load manually compiled classes.
> So if you change something, I suggest running $CATALINA_HOME/shutdown.bat and then
> $CATALINA_HOME/startup.bat. There is probably some way to get Tomcat to
> re-load classes without shutting it down, but I'm not a Tomcat expert.
>
> Note if you use "self-configuring web page" feature (which is somewhat like JSP),
> then you don't need to manually compile servlets, or stop/start the server. See here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Self-configuring-page-scripts.html
>
> I'm assuming you have a copy of the kawa jar file as WEB-INF/lib/kawa.jar.
> I'm also assuming your hello.class is WEB-INF/classes/hello.class.
> --
> --Per Bothner
> per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/

Good grief.

You are right.  Tomcat wasn't automatically reloading the classes.

Simply restarting it did the trick.

Thank you for all your help and sorry to bother you with such a silly problem.

Tony