How to make changes in jsp effected

Question

Hi

I am using Tomcat5.0.30, jdk1.5.0_17 and eclipse as IDE. Now the issue is when I made changes to any jsp pages I have to build(ant build) the project and have to deploy the war file to the Tomcat Manager to view the change. Is there any method which help to view the change without deploying the war file to the Tomcat Manager. Please give a solution.Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Why not use a exploded one for development.

I usually link my Tomcat to my dev directory, so it can pick the changes as soon as it is done.

Answer 2

If you use the Eclipse Tomcat Plugin, it will handle all that for you.

Answer 3

Extract your .war file into the $TOMCAT/webapps folder

Eg: extract yourapp.war to $TOMCAT/webapps/yourapp (Your WEB-INF directory should be at $TOMCAT/webapps/yourapp/WEB-INF)

Changes made to jsps under this folder will be visible immediately.

Answer 4

The easiest way of doing that is without much knowledge of how it works,

in my environment,

using eclipse 3.5 with j2ee support, then default settings are auto publish and auto build. So as long as you don't change .java files, you can keep working without re-deploy.