It's not the application unload that did it, the application failed to load because the symbolic links were gone. If anyone knows why should symbolic links to jars should be deleted, please share.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Pid * <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > You'd have to do something pretty strange with symbolic links for an > application unload to cause those to be deleted. But then, re-packaged > versions of Tomcat seem to do some strange things with symbolic links... > > > p > > On 9 April 2010 21:55, Karin Moscovici <karin.moscov...@correlix.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using tomcat 5.5 on Linux Centos. Today, after restarting tomcat, my > > application did not load. In the logs I found NoClassDefError on > > org.servlet.jsp.JspFactory class. It seems that the symbolic link to > > /usr/shar/java/jsp.jar that was under tomcat/common/lib simply > > dissappeared. > > When I added it using ln -s the problem was solved. This has happened to > me > > once before with HttpServletRequest class and servlet-api.jar from > > tomcat/server/lib. Is this a known issue? > > > > Thanks > > Karin > > > > > > -- > > -- > pidster.com >
