Richard,
I think he is discussing a 2-step process. First the JSP pages are
*generated* via some shell script, then they are *compiled* from the JSP
source by Tomcat. that is why I suggested inverting it, having the JSPs
fully formed, but have them pull config info as necessary.
Richard Mixon wrote:
>Maybe I'm missing something, but if you re-generate the pages, and have
>Tomcat in development mode, the new pages will automatically be re-compiled
>the next time they are accessed.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Potter [mailto:nullpointer.gpf@gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:59 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: Run shell script when web application start/restart
>
>The reason for me choosing the first, messy solution was that this had to be
>a quick fix, rewriting the logic in the JSP pages was out of the question
>(and way above the allocated budget ;) ).
>
>Of course I had the shell scripts and configuration files so it seemed just
>the right solution to use these tools in the startup process of the webapp.
>
>It seems that I can convince the cusomer to just run the shell scripts that
>modify(actually generate) the JSP pages but then I face an other problem.
>After generating and copying the JSP pages in the right place how can I tell
>tomcat (from the shell script) to restart the application (or to recompile
>the pages) ?
>
>Rgds
>Thomas
>
>On 7/13/06, Avi Deitcher <avi@deitcher.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't think so. You could, theoretically, have a context listener
>>that then executes a shell script, but that is really messy, and the
>>security manager probably won't even allow it.
>>
>>If I understand correctly, you want to have the following happen on
>>context restart:
>>- JSP pages get rebuilt from some macros or config files
>>
>>I can think of two ways to do this. The not-so-great way is to have a
>>context listener read the config files and generate the pages. The
>>problem is that I don't know when JSP pages are compiled by the Tomcat
>>engine - before or after context listeners are invoked. I believe you
>>can force a re-compilation of the JSP pages at that point, but I am
>>not sure how.
>>
>>The much smarter way is to ask why your JSP pages need to be
>>macro/dynamically generated. JSP includes enough logic tags. Why not
>>refactor your JSP pages so that they read the configuration files and
>>output the appropriate information? This would be much cleaner, and
>>probably wouldn't even require context restart?
>>
>>Tom Potter wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Jen,
>>>
>>>Just to make sure that we both talk about the same events :
>>>I don't want to restart the whole tomcat, only one web application,
>>>that is, by clicking on the start link(or restart) in on the admin page.
>>>I don't see how your suggestion would help me... if I'm missing
>>>something please make it clear to me...
>>>
>>>Rgds
>>>Thomas
>>>
>>>On 7/13/06, Mead, Jennifer L - VSCM <Mead.Jennifer@vectorscm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On my box the start and stop scripts are just that. .sh shell scripts.
>>>>In your case I would just copy them to a save file and put in an
>>>>execution string. The start scripts are in tomcat_home/bin.
>>>>
>>>>Jen
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Tom Potter [mailto:nullpointer.gpf@gmail.com]
>>>>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:28 AM
>>>>To: users@tomcat.apache.org
>>>>Subject: Run shell script when web application start/restart
>>>>
>>>>The JSP pages in the Web application I install under Tomcat 4.1.30
>>>>are based on some configuration files the user wants to modify,
>>>>thus I
>>>>
>>>>
>>wrote
>>
>>
>>>>a shell script to rebuild the JSP pages and repopulate the webapps
>>>>folder.
>>>>
>>>>My question is that is there a way to hook up my shell script with
>>>>the webapp start/stop proces so it would run at every startup, in
>>>>other words the user would activate my script by restarting the
>>>>
>>>>
>application ?
>
>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Thomas
>>>>
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