This is probably not a Tomcat problem, I got the same behaviour without Tomcat in a java application and also with a webapp in BEA. The temporary files are created by java itself (or more precise by some font handling in java.awt). I found this behaviour on a Windows machine independent from the tempdir settings, i.e. if not explicitly set, some automatic detected temp dir was chosen - depending of windows version, resp. environment variable settings (check your TEMP, TMP settings and under XP there is some directory under the user's directory - can't remember). BTW, your lucky with only 50 kb, depending of font these could also be also several MB. Since we had some other problems with java.awt.font, e.g. in headless environments we wrote a lot of wrappers for several functions, so we came around this problem a really hard way. Some suggestions 1. okay these files are temp files, so should go away if you shutdown clean, but from my observations this doesn't happen all the time, but setting System.runFinalizersOnExit improved this behaviour at our first tests, but of course this may introduce other problems. 2. our first solution was cleaning up the directory manually on startup of application, may be you can think of a similiar solution - even on a server application. From our observations, if you reuse the font objects there is only one temp file per font, so after all it's not a real problem if you gather some temp files (unless you have thousands of fonts) and clean them up on each server start.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2004 08:16 An: Tomcat Developers List Betreff: java.io.tempdir Problems I hope this is Tomcat related. If not, please accept my apologies, and give me direction. I have removed from my Tomcat 5 (Struts 1.2 using a custom taglib) service the java.io.tempdir setting because when I use the following code: File file = new File(Classpath.WEB_INF + "resource" + File.separator + "content_type" + File.separator + "ttf" + File.separator + physicalName); FileInputStream fontStream = new FileInputStream(file); Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,fontStream); font = font.deriveFont(attributes); fontStream.close(); I get temp files of around 50 - 150 kilobytes each written to the temp directory. I requested assistance on Tomcat User without an answer. Anyway, I assume that there may be a concurrency issue of somekind. Is that right? Anyone with any assistance out there? Michael McGrady --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
