[jtflores]

I am using Myeclipse 6.01 with Tomcat 6.014 server. I am running web project application in debug/start mode with exploded project deployment. Is there a reason why css changes do not take effect when changes are made. It seems that the only way to view the changes is to restart the server.

[Riyad Kalla]

Chances are they are being made, but your browser is caching the old CSS. Try and use SHIFT-Refresh on the page to force the web browser to reload the page’s assets.

[jtflores]

I did do that does not work. The changes are reflecting in Tomcat deployment context. However they do not reload, unless you restart the server.

[Riyad Kalla]

Is this not a plain web project but rather a JSF project or something like that? If so, that would explain the caching.

[jtflores]

It is a jsf project. What does that mean?

[Riyad Kalla]

JSF does some heavy caching, you’ll see similar behavior with data tables possibly and other components that will cache their state until the context is reloaded. MyEclipse cannot force JSF to reload it’s resources, but restarting the context in Tomcat (by touching web.xml) will force JSF to do it.

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