Hello all,

Whenever we modify a servlet class or what ever, we have to restart the tomcat server.


But thats not the case with jsp(s). We can add/remove do whatever, and it ll work w/o restarting tomcat.

Why is it with servlets?

JSP also becomes a servlet internally but it doesnt require restarting?


What is the reason?

Any idea..........

Thanks...

jsp page takes two steps to compile
1)translate from jsp page to servlet
2)compile servlet to .class file (compiler works here)

servlet takes 1 step to compile
1)compile servlet to .class file(compiler checks syntax error here)