title: Tomcat not autodeploying war file
body: <p>I followed the following steps</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Shutdown Tomcat</li>
  <li>Deployed a war file with a timestamp of 1st December</li>
  <li>Start Tomcat - This created the exploded directory for the deployed war file. </li>
  <li>Stop Tomcat </li>
  <li>Updated the war file with a new one with a timestamp of 3rd December</li>
  <li>Restart Tomcat </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I found that when i restarted Tomcat, the existing files in the folder that was expanded previously were not updated. Shouldnt the update to the war file have updated the relevant jsp, class file? </p>
  
  <p>I looked at the documentation and found this <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html" rel="noreferrer">http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html</a>. The following quote under "Automatic Application Deployment"</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>In addition to the automatic
    deployment that occurs at startup
    time, you can also request that new
    XML     configuration files, WAR
    files, or subdirectories that are
    dropped in to the appBase (or<br>
    $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[engine_name]/[host_name]
    in the case of an XML configuration
    file) directory while     Tomcat is
    running will be automatically
    deployed, according to the rules
    described above. The auto deployer
    will also track web applications for
    the following changes:</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>An update to the WEB-INF/web.xml
    file will trigger a reload of the web
    application</li>
    <li>An update to a WAR
    which has been expanded will trigger
    an undeploy (with a removal of the
    expanded webapp), followed by a
    deployment</li>
    <li>An update to a XML
    configuration file will trigger an
    undeploy (without the removal of any
    expanded directory), followed by a
    deployment of the associated web
    application</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Shouldnt the files have been automatically been updated as a result of point 2 above? </p>
  
  <p>Autodeploy is set to true in server.xml</p>
  
  <p></p>