cas5 rebuild and restart for every change??

[Yan Zhou]

Hi there,

CAS5.3.x overlay.  It looks like we have to build it into a WAR file first, then either run it as an executable WAR or deploy to external container. 

There is also a way to run CAS as an executable WAR via Spring Boot's maven plugin, but that requires NO change to CAS dependencies, which is not my use case (I have made a lot changes in CAS dependencies).

Is there some way that I can do a hot swap, e.g., see the static HTML/CSS change with the refresh of a browser?

Even in standalone mode, it takes several minutes for CAS 5.3 to startup. 

Thanks,

Yan

[Richard Frovarp]

If you deploy to an external container like Tomcat, you can instead of
using the war, explode it into the webapp directory. Wars and jars are
just zip files. Or let Tomcat explode it for you the first time, stop
Tomcat, then delete war. You can edit content without having to
rebuild.

I think that the HTML / CSS can be updated live enough if you use the
method above. If nothing else it saves you the build step even if you
have to bounce Tomcat.

[David Curry]

Just to add to what Richard said, you'll also want to put

spring.thymeleaf.cache: false

in your cas.properties so that you can edit the files and see the changes "immediately" without having to bounce Tomcat. Note that it seems to only refresh every 60 seconds though; so my usual approach was to save the files you've changed, run "date" and see what time it is, and then wait until the seconds reach ":00" before refreshing the browser. Annoying, but still a lot faster than rebuilding/redeploying.

Once you've changed everything, copy the files back into your maven repo, take the cache line from about out of cas.properties, rebuild and redeploy.

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[Ray Bon]

Yan,

In addition to exploding the war, you can create a link to the exploded war from within tomcat webapps

$ ll Applications/tomcat/webapps/

lrwxrwxrwx 1 rbon rbon   51 Apr  1 19:20 cas -> /home/rbon/workspace/cas-overlay-template/build/cas

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