The log file containing the information referenced will usually be the one named with the hostname on which Tomcat is running. On a simple server (e.g. development environment) this is localhost.<datestamp>.log
entr (http://entrproject.org/) provides a more friendly interface to inotify (and also supports *BSD & Mac OS X).
It makes it very easy to specify multiple files to watch (limited only by ulimit -n), takes the hassle out of dealing with files being replaced, and requires less bash syntax:
$ find . -name '*.py' | entr ./myfile.py
D. Hickok, D. Lesniak, and M. Rowe. 38th Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium April 8 - 9, 2005. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, (2005)