On 27/02/17 10:02, Diego Urenia wrote:
> *UPDATE: *Making further tests while I was waiting for some answers I found
> out that if I explode the war by myself (unziping the war file into the
> webapps folder) I still experience the problem. So I think we can rule out
> the assumption that the problem happens while the application is still
> exploding the war file and that the file size affects it.
>
> Another info that might be useful:
>
> - I am creating this folder using java.io.File#mkdir();
> - I am trying to check if this folder exist using
> Class#getResources("/folder");
You need to create the simplest possible test case that demonstrates the
problem (e.g. a single servlet) and then show us the code.
Mark
>
> Best regards,
> Diego Urneia
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Diego Urenia <dru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My application creates a folder to store the config files at the first
>> startup and immediately after that the application tries to access this
>> folder in order to save some information.
>>
>> Using Tomcat 6 and 7 everything works fine.
>> Using Tomcat 8, 8.5, and 9 the application experiences a weird behavior
>> and here are some tests I made which made me think it was a war explosion
>> related problem:
>>
>> - The problem doesn't happen when I am running the application using
>> Intellij IDEA, because I use an exploded artifact;
>>
>> - I've created a dummy application to simulate only the creation and first
>> access to this config folder (the same way I am doing in the real
>> application) at startup and everything worked fine, which led me to believe
>> the size of my application can be what revealed the problem (bigger .war
>> file takes longer to be exploded);
>>
>> - Another test I made in my application was adding a Thread.sleep(5000);
>> after creating the folder, which then makes the access to the folder
>> possible (maybe because Tomcat had enough time to explode the war file);
>>
>> It was my belief before having this problem that Tomcat exploded the war
>> before it even starts the application, but now I have my doubts.
>>
>> Three questions:
>>
>> - Does Tomcat really explode the war before starting the application?
>>
>> - If it doesn't, how does it work? (pointing the right piece of
>> documentation, which I couldn't find is as good as an explanation)
>>
>> - Can anyone tell me what has changed in this regard from version 6 and
>> 7 and the newer ones that led me to this problem?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Diego Urenia
>>
>>
>>
>
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