I just got a new web account, over at digitalspace.net, to host my little Java Servlet projects. A website with it's own IP address, shell, Servlets, and mySql database is only $3 a month. Not too bad. I was using mycgiserver.com but their connection is pretty slow and the deployment is a little bit non-standard.
The new site only reloads it's Tomcat Server every morning, which makes it hard to develop servlets (as a new program won't get loaded.) So I did some research and it turns out you can create your own ClassLoader in Java.
I'm creating some facade Servlet classes that will load the real class for each request. This way when I recompile my classes, they'll be loaded by the server and the webpages will be updated.
pretty slick
Posted by Sam at June 5, 2003 2:33 PM