Question

I’m developing a web application with jsp pages in Eclipse 3.7.2 and testing it with Tomcat v6.0.

I’ve almost the perfect environment as all changes to my jsp or java code are immediately available in the browser within Eclipse, so I can directly test any change.

But… I also use jQuery, who isn’t ;-), and changes in my javascript files are not immediately active. Looks like they are cached or copied once and don’t get replaced. Even after rebuilding or restarting the tomcat, the old files keep being used.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks a lot,
Frank

Answer 1

If you are using firebug in your browser, you can switch off the caching by default without adding code to your page:

click the arrow on the right side of the Networking button and select the disable browser cache option.