Re: Configuring tomcat to release the webapp jar file handles

2010-01-11 Thread Vijay
Thanks for the pointers Chris. I did some more research to isolate the cause of the issue (my web application, java or tomcat). I used a 5.5.28 tomcat installation and ensured that there is no webapp running within tomcat. Then I pointed JAVA_HOME to java 1.5 and 1.6 and looked at the file

Re: Configuring tomcat to release the webapp jar file handles

2010-01-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vijay, On 1/6/2010 1:12 AM, Vijay wrote: I have a webapp that has 300 jar files bundled in WEB-INF/lib. Most of the classes in these jar files need to be loaded during the startup of the webapp. Does tomcat release the jar file handles once

Configuring tomcat to release the webapp jar file handles

2010-01-05 Thread Vijay
Hi, I have a webapp that has 300 jar files bundled in WEB-INF/lib. Most of the classes in these jar files need to be loaded during the startup of the webapp. Does tomcat release the jar file handles once the class loader is done loading the classes? It does not seem to be the case. Ideally,