Reptile
(an OpenPrivacy project)

Notes:

Overview:

This is a central location for notes and hints that may be of use to developers.

Updating resources in real time

In order for Reptile to load resources in a location and architecture agnostic manner, we use resource: URLs to load content. Normally Reptile pulls this content from reptile.war under a running Tomcat instance.

A developer may want to update these resources within a running Reptile instance to work with new functionality. Normally this would require reloading Reptile/Tomcat, redeploying your new reptile.war, waiting for Tomcat to restart, etc. This can take quite a long time when you are trying to debug an application.

The solution is to update the content inline. This is easy to do and we have a script in CVS that can handle this for you. All it does is copy over new content into the correct Tomcat expanded web application.

This code is included in src/scripts within CVS.