Having to restart tomcat whenever you make a change

Question

Is there a way around having to restart tomcat every time a small change is made in java code?

Answer 1

Set reloadable attribute of element in context.xml to true.

Then Tomcat will monitor changes in /WEB-INF/classes and /WEB-INF/lib and reload whenever appropriate.

If you're using an IDE, this is configureable as server setting as well. Here's how it look like in Eclipse: