RE: unpackWARs Pros and Cons

2007-03-05 Thread Rachel Wilson
We have encountered issues with deploying unpacked war files on Windows platforms: when redeploying webapps tomcat fails to clear out the unpacked directory because windows locks some jar files. There is a "antiResourceLocking" workaround but we decided to work with packed war files in the end --

RE: log4j exception only when stopping and starting a web application

2007-02-28 Thread Rachel Wilson
> This problem is pretty common when restarting web applications. Libraries > that use singletons etc. don't get reinitialized correctly when the web > application is reloaded. Blimey, that sounds like a serious flaw :S Do you know why they don't get reinitialized properly? Could you give me

RE: log4j exception only when stopping and starting a web application

2007-02-28 Thread Rachel Wilson
>> It looks like you have bad syntax in you log4j.properties file. If that were the case, i would have expected it to fail the first time i started the application? to be clear, here are the steps to reproduce the error [1] deploy an unpacked webapp "myapp" to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp [2] start

log4j exception only when stopping and starting a web application

2007-02-27 Thread Rachel Wilson
I am deploying an unpacked webapp directory to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp, If i (stop and) start tomcat then my application runs fine and the logging works fine. However if i stop the application (successfully, it seems) and restart it using Tomcats manager app then I get the following error: 200