Re: ContextInitialization fails, but app starts anyway

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Mikusa
Marc, Yep, think you're right. My fault for not paying closer attention to your version. Other options that come to mind... - fetch one of the URL's for your application, check for a 404 status - connect via JMX, look at "Catalina:type=Deployer,host=localhost" (substitute your host name for lo

Re: ContextInitialization fails, but app starts anyway

2011-11-10 Thread Marc Limotte
Thanks for the suggestion, Dan. Sound like that option would be perfect, but I do not see it for Tomcat 5.5 (https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/systemprops.html). Is there a work-around or alternative for users of older Tomcat versions? Marc On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Daniel

Re: ContextInitialization fails, but app starts anyway

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Mikusa
Marc, Take a look at "org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE". >From the docs... "If true, the server will exit if an exception happens during the server initialization phase. If not specified, the default value of false will be used." https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/s

ContextInitialization fails, but app starts anyway

2011-11-10 Thread Marc Limotte
Hi. For reference, my set up is Tomcat 5.5.27, Java 1.6.0_22 , Ubuntu 10.04.3. Once in a while when starting Tomcat; ContextInitialization fails for my app (specifically, Spring DI fails), but the app still comes up in a broken state.  Is there a way to make this a hard fail-- Ideally tomcat woul