Hi This behavior is controlled by org.apache.myfaces.CONFIG_REFRESH_PERIOD config init param. The default value is 2 (seconds), so if you want to disable it, just add this to your web.xml
<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.CONFIG_REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name> <param-value>0</param-value> </context-param> regards Leonardo Uribe 2009/7/7 Scott Carter <carterdevli...@gmail.com> > I posted a few days back with an issue about the managed beans being > recreated on every page request. I changed my dependencies to now use > MyFaces 1.2.7, and that problem seemed to have stopped. But I now notice > that everytime I request a page, anything *.jsf, I notice in the logs that > the faces-config.xml file is reread. It really seems that everytime I > request a page that all of the configs are read again. This behavior scares > me quite a bit, as I need to ensure in a production environment that I can > relay on session data, etc ... > > This behavior only occurs in production, and can not be replicated on any > of our test servers. Is this at all normal, or is there a way to stop > this. Is this something that should worry me on a production server? Any > help figuring this out would really be appreciated. The differences between > production and testing environments are : production is linux, testing is > windows and production is Tomcat + Apache Web Server and testing is just > Tomcat. Here is a snippit from our web.xml for configuring Myfaces: > > <!-- Listener, to allow Jetty serving MyFaces apps --> > <listener> > > <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class> > </listener> > > <!-- Faces Servlet --> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > <!-- Faces Servlet Mapping --> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > > > Here is a copy of the log that shows the reloading of the config. Keep in > mind this occurs on every request of a *.jsf page: > > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > feedStandardConfig > INFO: Reading standard config META-INF/standard-faces-config.xml > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > feedClassloaderConfigurations > INFO: Reading config : > jar:file:/home/scottallen/roadmap/rmths/WEB-INF/lib/tomahawk-1.1.9.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > feedWebAppConfig > INFO: Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > logMetaInf > INFO: Starting up MyFaces-package : myfaces-api in version : 1.2.7 from > path : file:/home/scottallen/roadmap/rmths/WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-api-1.2.7.jar > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > logMetaInf > INFO: Starting up MyFaces-package : myfaces-impl in version : 1.2.7 from > path : > file:/home/scottallen/roadmap/rmths/WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-impl-1.2.7.jar > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > logMetaInf > INFO: MyFaces-package : tomahawk-sandbox15 not found. > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > logMetaInf > INFO: MyFaces-package : tomahawk-sandbox not found. > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > logMetaInf > INFO: Starting up MyFaces-package : tomahawk in version : 1.1.9 from path : > file:/home/scottallen/roadmap/rmths/WEB-INF/lib/tomahawk-1.1.9.jar > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.LocaleUtils > toLocale > WARNING: Locale name in faces-config.xml null or empty, setting locale to > default locale : en_US > Jul 6, 2009 11:19:59 PM org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator > handleSerialFactory > INFO: Serialization provider : class > org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.serial.DefaultSerialFactory >