Once every blue moon (and I do mean it happens pretty rarely) I make a change to a
jsp in my
j2ee application and the change does not show up in my application. If I have had enough
coffee, I realize oh if I just go to the work directory and delete the generated .java and .class file which
Tomcat keeps for my jsp then my new jsp will be handled correctly next time someone vists that page. But sometimes, I have doubt and I say oh I must have done something else wrong in my jsp and so I do not think to go to the work directory to do this.
So my question is, what are some of the causes of Tomcat not regenerating the .java and the .class files for a jsp page? Is there anything I can do to reduce the rate from once every blue moon to 1/infinity?
I am using Tomcat 6 if that helps any.