On 04/05/2001 07:38:57 ?iso-8859-1?Q?Endre_St=F8lsvik?= wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Milt Epstein wrote:
>
> | Maybe your app could use some reorganizing.
>
> Yeah, maybe, Milt.
>
> Why don't you ask the developers, then? I actually believe that all things
> I said in those mails about reloading in TC3.x and TC4 are correct.
>
> And the reason for me having to restart every time is that I basically
> have made a "server" running "on top of tomcat", and there's basically
> only 3 servlets running, but with lots of helper classes and stuff around.
>
> The reason for _always_ getting a ClassCastException is that I have all my
> user information stored in a User object. This won't ever reload (that is,
> serialize/deserialize, or in some other way being "cast" over to the new
> classloader), and when i retrieve it from the HttpSession, it's _always_
> ClassCastException'ing.
>
> I'm not the only one making such "complicated" apps. The exact same story
> about the "User object" have been mentioned a couple of times on this
> list.
>
> And that's how it is.
>
> ;)
>
>
> --
> Mvh,
> Endre
>
I just started using Tomcat (3.2.1) the other day for development and found the
"nearly but not quite" state of the servlet reloading to be frustrating so I had
a look at the code and have come up with a few hacks that seem to get it working
for me, session objects as well. The main problem seems to be that class
reloading is being handled on the servlet level rather than the context level.
I am sure that it is not robust and certainly doesn't take into account
destroying a servlet on one thread while it is use on another, but it is fine
for development. Try it out and let me know if it helps with those
ClassCastException blues :-)
Sorry about the code folks, I know that this isn't tomcat-dev but I am not a
tomcat developer and there seem to be a few people on this list suffering with
the same problem.
File: org/apache/tomcat/core/ContextManager.java
method internalService(), just before the line that reads
if( req.getWrapper() == null ) {
add
req.getContext().handleReload(req);
------
File: org/apache/tomcat/core/Context.java
new method
void handleReload(Request req) {
if( reloadable
&& servletL != null
&& servletL.shouldReload() ) {
Enumeration e = servlets.elements();
while( e.hasMoreElements() ) {
try {
ServletWrapper wrapper = (ServletWrapper)e.nextElement();
if( !wrapper.isInternal() ) {
wrapper.destroy();
}
} catch(Exception ex) {
log("Error in destroy: ", ex);
}
}
servletL.reload();
try {
contextM.doReload(req, this);
} catch(TomcatException te) {
log("Error in reload", te);
}
}
}
----
File: org/apache/tomcat/core/ServletWrapper.java
method doDestroy(), at the end add:
servlet = null;
servletClass = null;
method handleReload(), comment out everything (beware there are already /* */
comments in there...)
.../Bob
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