I've poked around a bit and have been fairly unsuccesful in finding and answer to this problem.
I'm running tomcat 4.1.18 on Debian (woody). I'm using struts (1.0) and for the longest time, everything was great. I could reload my classes using the manager server reload feature. Then, a few months ago, it stopped reloading my classes when I'd tell it to. It would say they're reloaded, but they're really not. I'm not sure exactly when this started happening, so something must've changed in my system. I'm having trouble figuring out what.
The problem has to do with struts. If I don't include my WEB-INF/classes directory in my classpath (set in setclasspath.sh), then I get:
HTTP Status 500 - No action instance for path
...when accessing a struts action form. An error appears in my localhost_log to the effect of:
2004-01-22 10:59:44 StandardContext[]: Mapped to servlet 'action' with servlet path '/admin/MemberInfo.do' and path info 'null' and update=true
2004-01-22 10:59:44 action: Error creating ActionForm instance of class 'com.bzzagent.webapp.beans.MemberBean'
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.myapp.webapp.beans.MemberBean
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:198)
The weird part is that if I DO include my WEB-INF/classes dir in setclasspath.sh, struts is happy, but then my classes won't reload using the server-reload tomcat feature.
SO- to sum up:
1. Including myapp/WEB-INF/classes in setclasspath.sh makes struts happy, but makes it so I can't reload my classes
2. Not including myapp/WEB-INF/classes in setclasspath.sh breaks struts, but reloading actually appears to work. Auto-detection of classes changing also appears to work (reload="true" in server.xml)
Can anyone explain this behavior?
My other question is- is there anything in my webapp that could cause it to not actually reload the classes? Static classes? That sort of thing? One thing I did do was play around with moving to struts 1.1. Could there be some version of some library thats screwing me up?
Another thing I'm not sure about is where to keep all the libraries I'm using. Generally, I'm keeping all my .jar files in my WEB-INF/lib directory. I'm wondering if keeping ALL my jar files there is screwing something up. I don't have anything in my server/shared/lib directory. I've listed the entries of my WEB-INF/lib at the bottom of my email.
Thanks for any light someone can shed!
/kurt
Files in WEB-INF/lib:
activation.jar application.jar batik-awt-util.jar batik-dom.jar batik-svggen.jar batik-util.jar batik-xml.jar cewolf.jar commons-beanutils.jar commons-collections.jar commons-lang-2.0.jar commons-logging.jar commons-validator.jar displaytag-1.0-b2.jar dom.jar jakarta-oro-2.0.7.jar jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar jaxen-full.jar jaxp-api.jar jcommon-0.7.1.jar jdbc2_0-stdext.jar jfreechart-0.9.4.jar jstl.jar mail.jar mm.mysql-2.0.11-bin.jar pg73jdbc3.jar pgjdbc2.jar postgresql.jar rchart.jar sax.jar saxpath.jar session.jar standard.jar struts.jar utils.jar
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