Where is a Servlet instance stored in Tomcat?

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Hi,
We know that servlet container generates ONLY ONE servlet instance which will handle all the client requests for the servlet. This makes big inconvenionce in debug phase using Tomcat server. Unless restarting the server, you will not be able to see the changes you made in the servlet class.
My question is where the servlet instance is stored in Tomcat. I think it should be in [TOMCAT_HOME]/work/ directory but actually not. My approach is deleting the instance before sending request to the servlet. In this way, servlet container will generate an instance of new version of the servlet class.
Is there any other way to work around that?
Thanks,

Answer 1

We know that servlet container generates ONLY ONE
servlet instance which will handle all the client
requests for the servlet. My Tomcat instance will pool servlet instances. It might look like only one instance to you, but that doesn't mean that Tomcat does it that way.
This makes big inconvenionce in debug phase using Tomcat server. This makes no sense to me. Are you talking about load testing?
Unless restarting the server, you will not be able to see the changes you made in the servlet class.This has nothing to do with debugging. And Tomcat has hot deployment now if you do it correctly with WAR files.
My question is where the servlet instance is stored in Tomcat. I think it should be in
[TOMCAT_HOME]/work/ directory but actually not. My approach is deleting the instance before sending
request to the servlet. In this way, servlet container will generate an instance of new version of the
servlet class.Sounds like you don't know how to deploy to Tomcat properly. Servlet .class files are stored where you put them: in the WEB-INF/classes directory for your Web app, in a JAR in the WEB-INF/lib directory for your Web app. These are either in the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps context directory that you create or, better yet, in the WAR file that you deploy to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.
The /work directory that you refer to is where Tomcat puts generated Java code for JSPs.
Is there any other way to work around that?There's no way to change it, and there's no reason that I can think of to explain why you'd want to. What is the real problem here?