Why Tomcat 5.5 doesn't recompile?

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Hi everybody.

Today I have installed Tomcat 5.5.9 (I'm not a complete newbie: I have worked with Tomcat 4.1 and 5.0 with no problem).

But now I do have a real problem. Tomcat does not recompile JSPs when I update them at the webapps\ROOT directory. Therefore, it always presents the same web page, even if the corresponding Jsp has been updated.

Even if I shutdown and restart Tomcat, the Jsp is not recompiled. The only way to make Tomcat recompile a JSP is to delete the compiled files in work\Catalina\- directory.

I have checked that this is not a browser cache problem. It is a Tomcat problem since the compiled files don't change even if you update JSPs and restart Tomcat.

I have tried with the preconfigured version of Tomcat 5.5.4 located in

http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/#Preconfigured-Tomcat

and I get the same results.

What am I doing wrong? Please help me. I'm desperate and I don't know what else to do.

Thanks in advance,

Vicent Palasi