With regard to version 3.1 of Tomcat, what specifically must be done to enable automatic reloading of servlets?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=108773 Created: Jul 22, 2000 Modified: 2000-07-24 20:35:35.439 Author: Avi Kak (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=26410) Automatic reloading of servlets by a servlet container comes in handy during the development phase when you are frequently modifying and recompiling the servlets. Having to constantly shutdown and restart the servlet container each time you modify a servlet class can become tiring very quickly. Automatic reloading of servlets in Tomcat 3.1 is predicated upon two entries in two different files in the directory TOMCAT_HOME/conf: • In the file TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml, you must set the reloadable attribute to true in the context element pertaining to your webapp. For example, I have a webapp named form-processing. So I added the following entry to the file TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml: