title: Tomcat Auto Deploy Feature is this good?
body: <p>I downloaded and setup my Apache Tomcat 6 in our production server. I then started it to see if it's running, and found out that its okay.</p>
  
  <p>It runs and then I place my project war file there.  I am about to restart the tomcat service when I notice that that my web archive file was already unzipped and my project web file is already set at the web apps folder.</p>
  
  <p>I think, my setup has an auto-deploy feature but I kept on thinking if this is a good thing?</p>
  
  <p>I have these questions in mind:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Does Tomcat really auto deploys web archive file and what is the frequency that it does?</li>
  <li>Is this a nice feature?</li>
  <li>So what if I leave my war file there, does that mean that Tomcat will reload or unzip the archive file every now and then?</li>
  <li>Is what Tomcat does to my war file the same as when I properly restart my tomcat and let the tomcat service deploy my war file?</li>
  </ol>