https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56438
Bug ID: 56438
Summary: If jar scan does not find context config or TLD
config, log a message
Product: Tomcat 7
Version: 7.0.53
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: Catalina
Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
Reporter: justincranf...@hotmail.com
I went through the same process as many others migrating to Tomcat 7. My simple
war application took orders of magnitude longer to load than in Tomcat 3.3, and
root cause was new Tomcat 7 / Servlet 3.0 jar scanning to look for context
config fragments.
This is a very painful process. I had to use FINE log level, parse thousands of
Tomcat log messages, and google the various messages. This was a waste of time.
All Tomcat 7 needed to do was log a message when the jar scan did not find
anything in a jar, and recommend adding that jar to one of the filters in
catalina.properties.
tomcat.util.scan.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.jarsToSkip
org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.jarsToSkip.
As an enhancement, please add a log message recommending adding a jar if
scanning does not find anything. I would recommend setting the log level to
FINE, and explicitly putting a logging.properties override for that message in
logging.properties. Anyone new to Tomcat 7 can fix these messages by either
following the recommendation, or commenting out the logging.properties override
for the message.
This is low hanging fruit. It should be straight forward to add, and would be a
huge help for anyone new to Tomcat 7 who are unaware of the performance impact
of Servlet 3.0 jar scanning. It could even help Tomcat 7 veterans too, when
they add/upgrade/replace existing jar files that unknowingly affect jar
scanning performance.
Thank you.
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