It actually looks as if adding the reloadable paramater into
conf/web.xml has fixed it, contrary to initial reports from impatient
developers!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dani [mailto:gka4cj702@(protected)]
Sent: 18 December 2006 10:58
To: users@(protected)
Subject: Re: JSP's not recompiling

Maybe this is not the problem, but, did you turn on Servlet reloading?

http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/#Servlet-Reloading

Hope this helps.

On 12/18/06, Johnson, David d.johnson-at-cranfield.ac.uk |tomcat| <
hh49jagu9t0t...............> wrote:
>
> We're having some issues with JSP files not being recompiled when they
> should be, and was wondering if anyone can shed some light on it.
>
> We have Jasper set up in development mode, with the following in
> conf/web.xml:
>
> <servlet>
>      <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
>
> <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
>      <init-param>
>         <param-name>fork</param-name>
>         <param-value>false</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>      <init-param>
>         <param-name>development</param-name>
>         <param-value>true</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>      <init-param>
>         <param-name>modificationTestInterval</param-name>
>         <param-value>0</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>      <init-param>
>         <param-name>reloadable</param-name>
>         <param-value>true</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>      <init-param>
>         <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
>         <param-value>false</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>      <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
> </servlet>
>
> The JSP files are being created and updated by a content management
> system on a remote box, and then pushed onto the webserver using
Rsync.
>
> Tomcat does not always seem to spot that a file has been updated
though,
> and continues to serve the old jsp. I can force a recompile by
> "touch"ing the jsp file, but have no idea why this works, as the rsync
> is updating the timestamps whenever the page is updated anyway.
>
> Any advice would be welcome, it's driving our developers a little mad
> and me with it.
>
> Dave
>
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