Must I always have to restart the Tomcat server to clear out Velocity Template cache?

Question

What I am doing is directly modifying a .vm file in our Jira project on my test server trying to figure out a bug that we have. The reason why I am doing this directly on the server is because our project build time and start-up of the server is over 10 minutes for every build (thats another issue for another day).

After modifying the .vm file I have tried to clear out the cache on Tomcat by completely deleting the Catalina\localhost\projectName folder as well as the browser cache. This does not work and I am forced to shutdown the Tomcat server and restart and only then do the changes show up.

Sick of shutting down and starting back up to test each change I am making in the file to troubleshoot.

Is there another way I can do this?

Answer 1

For debugging, you should be able to turn caching off. If you're loading templates as files, for example, you could set the following property in your config:

file.resource.loader.cache=false