Avoiding tomcat restart

[Joseph Bashir, geändert vor 15 Jahren.]

Whenever I change a .vm file in theme, I always have to restart tomcat to show the effect of modified .vm files. Is there any way how to avoid restart after every change.

I am using Liferay 5.1.1.

Thanks and regards.


Joseph Bashir

[Matt King, geändert vor 15 Jahren.]

Nope, you have to restart each time, as the velocity templates are compiled into memory



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Whenever I change a .vm file in theme, I always have to restart tomcat to show the effect of modified .vm files. Is there any way how to avoid restart after every change.

I am using Liferay 5.1.1.

Thanks and regards.


Joseph Bashir
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[Alex Wallace, geändert vor 15 Jahren.]

In my experience, redeploying the theme war makes the changes be reflected on tomcat, w/o restart.

However, if you directly modified a vm file in tomcat, the redeploy won't cut it, you will need to remove the theme war from webapps and then redeploy for that...

Tomcat realizes you modified the file directly and gives it more importance than one being deployed, so removing the theme completly is required...

Hope this helps!

[Dominik Lastname, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

As you maybe already know and to solve the thread, here is the solution for your problem (working in lr 523)

#
# Velocity Reloading (only for development)
#
    file.resource.loader.path = templates
    file.resource.loader.cache = false
    velocimacro.library.autoreload = true

[Hitoshi Ozawa, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

As you maybe already know and to solve the thread, here is the solution for your problem (working in lr 523)

Would appreciate if you can tell us where you've set these velocity.properties settings in Liferay. Following issues seems to say that it's still not supported.

http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-3081

[Vishal Mehta, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

I think Server Administration field in control panel allows you to clear cache. Doing that should solve the problem of restarting Tomcat Server everytime. I tried doing it for simple text display (remover powered by Liferay) and it works..

[Hitoshi Ozawa, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

According to the Liferay's Development Guide, the recommended way to hot deploy a theme seems to be to execute "ant deploy" from the theme directory source.

http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.0/development/-/ai/creating-a-theme

[Dominik domih, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Sorry for my late reply, I did not get an email notification.. ?!

Since I pasted the properties into my portal-ext.properties and restarted the server once more, my changes to the velocity templates were applied immediately..

[Hitoshi Ozawa, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Since I pasted the properties into my portal-ext.properties and restarted the server once more, my changes to the velocity templates were applied immediately..

I think the the way Liferay suggests is to define it in the portal-developer.properties.

http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Liferay+Developer+Mode