Uggg, blogging is hard

Wow, I haven't posted since January. I actually forgot about this blog for a while. I was about to delete it, figuring that no one is reading it. Besides, I never post to it. Is it because I don't have enough time? Nah, I don't think that is the problem. I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that I wanted this blog to be something epic. I wanted to reach the average coders out there who are too timid to risk being teared appart on a Linux user forum by asking a question about PHP. But I wanted it to be informative to everyone like Ben Forta's blog, or the Coding Horror blog (seriously, you should check this one out). And in doing so, I was unconsciously putting the concept of this blog up on a throne. The importance I placed in my message is what was causing me to delay my next entry. I was too nervous that what I would write wouldn't be important enough, or would be considered as child's play to some of the more advanced coders out there.

But I've realized something over the past couple months. Given my experience and education, I am actually on the same playing ground as many of the advanced coders. They just have more confidence in what they say than I do. So, the trick is to post blogs, and keep posting. Not worrying about whether or not my information is going to be an epic, or an awe inspiring message of programming genius. Hell, if I can help one person set up Tomcat with a project that is a non-war deployment, and have their servlets and JSPs reloadable, then I think I've done my job.

That reminds me, along with my previous posts about Tomcat 5.5, make sure you set the reloadable attribute to true in the context.xml file under the $CATALINA_HOME/conf directory.

<context reloadable="true">

That will aid in making your classes (servlets) reloadable without restarting the server, or using WAR file deployment.

Till the next time. Keep coding.