title: Tomcat auto-reload is not working on changing the class files in the context
body: <p>I have the source code in one place and the tomcat in another place.</p>
  
  <p>The source code directory used as the workspace for eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>tomcat webapps has the WAR deployed therein.</p>
  
  <p>I have setup my eclipse to copy newer compiled classes from the workspace to the webapps folder using a linked folder.</p>
  
  <p>Now my problem is that : Upon the copying of the classes to the webapps, which is again marked as the watched resource in the context.xml, the tomcat is not auto-reloading the context with the newer classes. I have to do it manually all the time.</p>
  
  <p>below is the snippet from my context.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Context crossContext="true" reloadable="true"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Default set of monitored resources --&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;WEB-INF/web.xml&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;WEB-INF/classes/&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;WEB-INF/classes/com/fmr/fit/pma/service&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;WEB-INF/classes/com/fmr/fit/pma/utils&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
      &lt;WatchedResource&gt;WEB-INF/classes/com/fmr/fit/pma/controller&lt;/WatchedResource&gt;
  &lt;/Context&gt;
  </code></pre>