Tomcat 5.5: exploded WAR directory persists

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bruce_phipps@my-deja.com - 15 Jul 2006 18:59 GMT

Tomcat 5.5.
I copy my WAR file myApp.war to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
Browse to the servlet and test it.
Tomcat "explodes" the jar to create a myApp/ directory. But this
directory is not cleaned up when I stop Tomcat.

In the develop-deploy WAR-test cycle I need to keep deleting the
"exploded" directory.
Is there a way to avoid this?

Thanks
Bruce

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Bill Medland - 17 Jul 2006 17:55 GMT

> Tomcat 5.5.
> I copy my WAR file myApp.war to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
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> In the develop-deploy WAR-test cycle I need to keep deleting the
> "exploded" directory.

Why do you need to delete it?

> Is there a way to avoid this?

I'm new to this area too but my experience is that if I replace the WAR then
a couple of seconds later it gets re-expanded automatically

(That is, I understand, because of some tomcat configuration setting
somewhere)

> Thanks
> Bruce

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Larry - 19 Jul 2006 20:23 GMT

> Tomcat 5.5.
> I copy my WAR file myApp.war to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
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> Thanks
> Bruce

ANT can be configured to do the tedious deployment work for you, which
is one of many tasks it was designed to do, and does very well ;-)

Larry

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