RE: why does not tomcat replace the missing files in the ROOT aft er a restart.

Thanks Mark for the reply... But do we have any way so that tomcat extracts the ROOT.war and replaces only the missing/changed files (can be based on the time stamp) in the ROOT folder even though the ROOT is not deleted..? Sorry if my question sounds dumb. Regards, Shashidhar V -Original

why does not tomcat replace the missing files in the ROOT after a restart.

Hi All, I have a small question. Please excuse me if this is a trivial question. I have a case where in I have some files missing in the ROOT folder. I wanted to know why Tomcat does not replace the missing files in the ROOT folder after I place a new ROOT.war in the webapps and restar