[opencms-dev] How to avoid caching of classes?

[Tristan Roddis]

I am developing an extended version of CmsXmlNav to provide custom 
navigation, but I am finding it very slow going because it takes so long 
to get the updated .class file registered with the system. I thought I 
would be able to just synchronize with the filesystem and OpenCMS would 
pick up the changes. However, it always seems to cache the old version and 
continue to use it until I both publish the project and restart Tomcat.

Is there any way I can get the system to pick up changes quicker? 
Currently the only foolproof way I have found is to:

1) Sychronize /system/classes/...
2) Publish project
3) Restart Tomcat
4) Log in to OpenCMS again
5) View page

All of which is extremely time consuming!

So... is there anything I can do to get a quicker development cycle? (e.g. 
configuration change to OpenCMS and/or Tomcat)?

I am using OpenCMS 4.7.7 with Tomcat 4.06 on Windows 2000 (and MySQL on 
Linux as the db).

Thanks in advance,

-T.

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