There's a backgroundProcessor method in tomcat that checks whether container classes need to be reloaded, and checks for session expirations. Is it possible to disable this method, like you can disable class reloading for the context with reloadable="false"? I'm using tomcat 6.0.18 on an IBM i (OS400) version V6R1. When daylight savings time hits, our application gets reloaded, and the following statements are in catalina.out: Mar 14, 2010 3:00:08 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext reload
INFO: Reloading this Context has started We have been able to stop the application from reloading on a different version of the IBM i, version V7R1, by using reloadable="false". However on the V6R1 O/S the application still reloads because the background processor detects a timestamp change when DST occurs. >From the documentation, it doesn't look like backgroundProcessorDelay can be used to suppress backgroundProcess, just to delay it as its name implies. We would gladly upgrade tomcat to a more recent version if we thought this issue had been resolved, but I don't see any mention of it in the change logs. - Jane
