Deploy definition confusion

Question

Hi,

what's the exact meaning of the word "Deployment" in case of Tomcat. Is it just putting any Servlet or JSP file in the web app folder correctly, or I'm still forgetting anything important here?

Answer 1

I think you need to tell Tomcat to rescan the directory or refresh the webapps or something. It won't pick it up on its own and start running it, unless it is there when it was started.

You can do this from the tomcat manager page.