where is embedded tomcat picking up war from?

Question

I'm working on an API that runs locally via embedded tomcat - org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat. This is not-spring boot. It works fine for me & most developers. For one developer tomcat is not picking up the latest built war's. It keeps running an older version of the app. Where can I look to see what war or jars are being loaded by tomcat?

It's a little confusing since it all works fine for me & he is running the same project version I checked into git.

Answer 1

Look for a call to one of the Tomcat.addWebapp() methods in your code. The docBase (the location of the WAR file) will be the second of the two String parameters. (The different methods have different parameters but they all have two String parameters and the docBase is always the second one).