Question

is there a way to use Grails in “exploded” mode on tomcat in order to make individual changes in a running application (like a gif) without having to regenerate the entire war and upload it ?

Something like adding an xml file in tomcat’s conf/Catalina/localhost that points to an exploded grails application ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean here, but tomcat will explode the war when it detects a new one, in which case you could modify the files directly in the exploded directory. I wouldn’t really recommend this though as once you upload a new version of the war all of your changes will be lost.