Is there a way to make tomcat load a context that I enter in the server.xml file? I added a Context entry into the server.xml file to make available an External Directory (as it is explained in the How To documentation) but I need to restart jboss before I can access the content in the external directory via http://:8080/<external directory>. Is it possible to reload tomcat or force a lood of its configuration files via the JMX console or twiddle without having to restart jboss? It would also be useful to force a loading of the context entry without having to restart tomcat for an application in production.