$CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost/dashboard.xml <Context docBase="D:/mydata/projects/PatchworkSystems/development/Dashboard/webapp" path="/dashboard" reloadable="true" antiJARLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true" debug="1" />
pay attention to :
antiResourceLocking = "true"
It's because of a side effect with having antiResourceLocking="true" set on your context. If you read the documentation on Tomcat here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
"Please note that setting this to true has some side effects, including the disabling of JSP reloading in a running server: see Bugzilla 37668."
which is here:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37668
There is no workaround as far as I know, if you remove the attribute it will allow you automatic loading of yor JSP's again. We set a deploy time subtitution to put the attribute back in for production. Boo, hiss! Anyways if you remove the antiResourceLocking attribute it will solve the problem you're experiencing.
Provide a workaround Apache !!!
o-link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/904877/tomcat-6-hot-deploy-issue