Thank you. ☹ From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 4:16 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: Tomcat Service(s) on Windows, Procmon question
Jon, On 11/7/24 14: 53, Mcalexander, Jon J. wrote: > Sorry to top-reply, but does this regression exist in 10. 1. 31 as well, or only 9. 0. 96? It's all of the October releases :/ -chris > From: Christopher Schultz <chris@ christopherschultz. net> Jon, On 11/7/24 14:53, Mcalexander, Jon J. wrote: > Sorry to top-reply, but does this regression exist in 10.1.31 as well, or > only 9.0.96? It's all of the October releases :/ -chris > From: Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net<mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net>> > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 1:16 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users@tomcat.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Tomcat Service(s) on Windows, Procmon question > > Jon, On 11/7/24 13: 08, Mcalexander, Jon J. wrote: > Happy Thursday > everybody, > > I have a question around starting a Tomcat Service Instance on > Windows servers. Is there a way to have the Tomcat Startup kick off a script > before starting > > > Jon, > > > > On 11/7/24 13:08, Mcalexander, Jon J. wrote: > >> Happy Thursday everybody, > >> > >> I have a question around starting a Tomcat Service Instance on Windows >> servers. Is there a way to have the Tomcat Startup kick off a script before >> starting that will clear the contents of the workDir (Clear the cache so to >> say)? > >> > >> We have run into some issues after upgrading our binaries to Tomcat 9.0.96 >> where applications start throwing some unknown method errors when starting. >> The fix for this was to clear the workDir contents before startup and let >> Tomcat do it's recompile steps. Note, the app didn't change, but the >> binaries did. > > > > Please note that there is a regression in 9.0.96 that you need to be > > aware of that affects JSPs. It will affect you, since you are reporting > > (a) missing method errors and (b) you want to clear your work directory, > > presumably to remove .jsp -> .java -> .class files to trigger > > recompilation of all of those. > > > > I would pause and NOT deploy 9.0.96 because recompilation will stop the > > app from throwing those missing-method errors, but some tags might > > actually not behave properly. > > > >> We separate our CATALINA_HOME from our CATALINA_BASE, so app teams just need >> to restart their instance after the upgrade. > >> > >> Doing this in Linux/Unix/MAC, is easier as we can do this with the setenv.sh >> script or in the startup or shutdown scripts. However Windows is more >> difficult as the instance runs as a service. > >> > >> Any help here would be much appreciated. > > > > As to your question about procrun running a script before it launches > > Tomcat, I think the short answer is "no" but I do have an idea for you. > > > > Create a new service called Tomcat-cleanup, make it a simply BAT/PS > > script that cleans-out that directory, and make it a startup dependency > > of the real Tomcat service. > > > > -chris > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org%3cmailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org>> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org%3cmailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org>
