Trinidad hotdeploy extension

# DESCRIPTION

Extension to allow Trinidad to redeploy an application each time a file, for instance tmp/restart.txt, is modified without restarting Tomcat.

WARNING

This extension only works with Trinidad 0.9.0 or avobe.

# INSTALL

$ jruby -S gem install trinidad_hotdeploy_extension

# CONFIGURE

To configure it, we need to add it into the extensions section of a web application in the Trinidad’s configuration file.

wiki.github.com/calavera/trinidad/advanced-configuration

It also allows to configure the name of the file to monitorize and the period of time that it waits between each check.

---
  web_apps:
    default:
      extensions:
        hotdeploy:
          monitor: tmp/restart.txt # this parameter is optional, the default value is tmp/restart.txt
          delay: 30000 # in milliseconds, this parameter is optional, the default value is 1 second

This extension can also be loaded from the command line with its default parameters:

$ jruby -S trinidad --load hotdeploy

Further information on how to write your own extension can be found in the wiki: wiki.github.com/calavera/trinidad/extensions

# Copyright

Copyright © 2010 David Calavera. See LICENSE for details.