Restarting Tomcat in Eclipse?

[Joe San]

Guys,

Suppose I have a scenario like this where I have a webapp with some servlets and I have run the application by starting tomcat. Now I make some small changes to my servlet and how can I redeploy it without stopping Tomcat?? Is there any facility in the Eclipse IDE for this???

I'm using Lomboz Eclipse IDE with the sysdeo plugin for Tomcat!

[Tim Holloway]

One way is to use Eclipse to build a new WAR, then go to the Tomcat admin webapp and tell Tomcat to upload and deploy that WAR.

It's possible that the "Run on Server" menu option might also be capable of deploying a rebuilt WAR, but I've never tried it.

Mostly when testing I build a Tomcat context XML file and store it in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ where the codebase for the webapp context is my build directory in the Eclipse project. That way I don't have to build and deploy a WAR -- just do whatever it takes to modify the build directory of the Eclipse project. That's convenient when modifying classes and JSP files, since Tomcat will normally pick up the changes after a minute or 2.

For some things - mostly config file changes and changes to the init code to servlets, a Tomcat restart is required, which the sysdeo plugin makes easy, since all I have to do is click the litle cat buttons on the Eclipse toolbar.

[Roshan Lal]

Originally posted by Jothi Shankar Kumar Sankararaj:
Guys,

Suppose I have a scenario like this where I have a webapp with some servlets and I have run the application by starting tomcat. Now I make some small changes to my servlet and how can I redeploy it without stopping Tomcat?? Is there any facility in the Eclipse IDE for this???

I'm using Lomboz Eclipse IDE with the sysdeo plugin for Tomcat!

With sysdeo plugin it is very easy.
In the Preference->Tomcat choose Context files instead of Server.xml.
And in your applications context file, use docbase=<path of your docroot> (it can be the path of your docroot in source project) and reloadable=true. All your changes are immediatley effective without restarting tomcat.

HTH
Roshan

[Joe San]

Roshan,

I will try this. Maybe if it works well and good!

[Joe San]

Roshan,

Can you tell me how to do "And in your applications context file, use docbase= (it can be the path of your docroot in source project) and reloadable=true. All your changes are immediatley effective without restarting tomcat."

[Sunil Vasudevan]

Use Web Tools Platform plugins with Eclipse. It is availble from Eclipse site itself or from Calisto site.

That enables us to run on web/application servers and even debug server side code.

It supports Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss etc. So quite helpful...

You can develop your application and eclipse will publish your changes on the fly to the server. At times though.. you may need to restart your server, but that can be done within Eclipse IDE itself.

[Joe San]

Sunil,

I'm using Lomboz-Eclipse IDE. The only reason I use this is because it has intellisense and many other features that Eclipse-WTP does not have.