Re: Basic JSP question
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
I would recommend to deploy a war file, because that is the EE way.
Where I work, during development, we deploy war files when classes are
changed, but only deploy the JSP's when they are the only things that
change.
The reason for this is our webapps tend to have a heavy start-up time,
and recompiling a JSP takes far less time (by magnitudes)
It will save some time, but is it really significant?
Yes, 5 minutes versus 3 seconds for testing a minor change. If you have
a lot of tweaking that needs to be done, it can make a huge difference.
Again, this is only in our dev environments, so deploying the "right
way" isn't a necessity. At least not until deploying to UAT and
Production :-)
My not about the Java EE way is based on the fact that war deployment
as far as I know is the only portable way of deploying code.
Arne
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