Hi,
But (this is OT): how do you stop Tomcat from doing so? I looked in the > Tomcat 5.0.x doc and just found nothing really helpful. http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/manager.html If you want to stop Tomcat doing this for a webapp only put a META-INF/context.xml in your WAR with the following content: <Context> <Manager pathname="" /> </Context> If you want to stop Tomcat doing this for all webapps you can do the same in ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/context.xml In this file you even have a comment: <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts --> - <!-- <Manager pathname="" /> --> Tamas