[Building Sakai] Updating component jars during development

[Raad Al-Rawi]

Cheers Adrian & Matthew

Good point about avoiding a service if possible - not an option if you're working on existing code unfortunately =)
I wish I had either a fast SSD or 8GB, but sadly I have neither.

Anyway, I've had a dig around and found this post at stack overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1390487/tomcat-hot-deploying-new-jars

so it's interesting that you can add a jar as a watched resource - and that there is a memory leak when doing a hot redeploy (I have seen my tomcat go from 400-600MB when doing dev-test cycles without restarting).
Might give it a whirl and see if it works.


Cheers

Raad


From: Adrian Fish [mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com]
Sent: 25 June 2012 14:43
To: Raad Al-Rawi
Cc: Sakai-Dev
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Updating component jars during development

It's a fair question, not daft at all, but I'm afraid the restarting tomcat bit has to happen as that's when the components get loaded.

A good approach is just to strip stuff out of your Sakai that you're not working on (the reasoning behind the cafe build) so it starts up quicker. It's also a good idea to do most of your prototype development in a webapp and refactor into services later, if at all. There's lots of stuff in components that probably shouldn't actually be there as nothing except the related tool ever calls it.

Cheers,
Adrian.
On 25 June 2012 14:31, Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk<mailto:Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hello All

This may be (and probably is) a daft question, but here goes...

If you change code which compiles to a component jar (like impl stuff), is there a better (quicker/easier) way of deploying it to your dev. instance than compiling it, stopping tomcat, copying the jar over, and restarting tomcat?


Cheers!

R
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