Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

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Is there a way how to update a servlet on Domino without having to restart the http task please?

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Subject: Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

Hi Edward - unfortunately, there is no way I know of to do this. What you can do, however, is test your servlet elsewhere, as (as this is Java) the actual final location of your servlet should not matter. I develop servlets in Eclipse 3, which has a plugin to allow you to run servlets on a Tomcat server (which you can install on your machine, and reboot whenever you want).

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Subject: RE: Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

Thanks for the feedback. My issue is that sometimes I find bugs (yes it happens sometimes!) and I would need to update the live servlet. However, there will be people connected and downloading from this server and I would not want to disconnect them.

Thanks

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Subject: RE: Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

Paul,Is your development JVM and the production (the one you are building the servlet for) the same? That is, are they both 1.4.x or are they both 1.3.1?

Regards

Rolf Pfotenhauer

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Subject: RE: Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

Actually, no - in eclipse I use 1.41, whearas R6 is 1.31. I know this is bad practice, but it hasn’t caused any issues so far.

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Subject: Refresh a servlet without restarting HTTP?

If you have much of a need for this, you should check out your WebSphere entitlement. WS allows you to start/stop/update applications in groups without affecting the http server or the other active modules.