Signals an existing application to shut itself down and reload. This can be useful when the web application context is not reloadable and you have updated classes or property files in the /WEB-INF/classes directory or when you have added or updated jar files in the /WEB-INF/lib directory.

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This operation doesn't consume or produce any artifacts.

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• The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to a supported JDK for the version of Tomcat being used.
• The Tomcat user specified by property property FDTOM_USERNAME must  must be granted the manager (Tomcat 6.0.x) or manager-script (Tomcat 7+) role.
• The target Tomcat server must be running prior to calling this operation.
• An application with the given FDTOM_CONTEXT_ROOT must be deployed and be in the running state.
• Application reloading (to pick up changes to the classes or web.xml file) is not supported when a web application is deployed directly from a WAR file. It only works when the web application is deployed from an unpacked directory. If you are using a WAR file, you should undeploy and then deploy again to pick up your changes.

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