I have seen deeper problems appear as ClassNotFoundExceptions. For instance, I have seen an application that was leaking file descriptors eventually get errors for having too many open files and then those have turned into ClassNotFoundExceptions.
good luck, ab On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:37 AM Mladen Adamović <mladen.adamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a production Tomcat server and this morning it started to give > strange ClassNotFoundError for stuff which was working for years without a > problem. > > I did redeploy app (by copying into the dir and deleting their ROOT), but > it didn't solve the issue, same ClassNotFoundException. > > On the development machine I built a new release, checked that it worked in > my localhost (it worked, no ClassNotFoundException), and stopped Tomcat on > the production server, moved files from work to work_1 directory (that's > specified as deleting the cache), copied the new WAR files into the > destination and deleted the previous files. > > It didn't still solve the issue, now I got even bigger problem JSPs which > were working fine previously now they don't work? > > What could cause this problem? How to fix it (without setting again new > production tomcat from scratch)? > > Thanks >
