30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
8:11 p.m.
I wrote:
> So is a restart of Tomcat always required? This
wasn't mentioned in the guide.
> And since extensions can be added via the extension manager without a restart,
> is there a sneaky trick to doing the same with my own components.
Thomas Mortagne wrote:
What you have in XE_WAR_HOME/WEB-INF/lib is loaded by
Tomcat at
startup, there is not much XWiki can do about it.
It also seems that restarting Tomcat isn't always sufficient to update a component.
I've updated the jar file a couple of times and seen the same behaviour after the
restart.
I notice that in the Tomcat docs there is a reloadable attribute for the
org.apache.catalina.Loader interface
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/loader.html
"Set to true if you want Catalina to monitor classes in /WEB-INF/classes/ and
/WEB-INF/lib for changes, and automatically reload the web application if a change is
detected. This feature is very useful during application development, but it requires
significant runtime overhead and is not recommended for use on deployed production
applications. You can use the Manager web application, however, to trigger reloads of
deployed applications on demand."
Doesn't that mean that the corresponding XWiki class could support reloading as a
configurable option?