Re: Possible Caching Problem Solution

Charles,

Were the old jar files in the lib directory?

Terry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rector" <crector@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Enhydra: Possible Caching Problem Solution


> Interesting thing. Recently my site started dying all over the place
again,
> and setting CLASSLOAD debugging showed me that it was dying because it
> couldn't find the com.oreilly.servlet.FileRenamePolicy class. Earlier I
was
> using de.opus5.servlet and it would die because it couldn't find the
> de.opus5.servlet.MultipartRequest class.
>
> I had written an ErrorHandler page just to be neat and tidy, but when the
> lion's share of my pages stopped coming up I decided to remove the
> ErrorHandler so I could see any exceptions that were being thrown (this
was
> before I tried CLASSLOAD debugging info). So I removed the page, and
> redeployed. I tried accessing a couple pages again and was surprised to
find
> that my ErrorHandler page was still coming up for all of them! I checked
the
> jar. Not in there. I resaved and restarted the application in the
> multiserver admin. Didn't help. I restarted multiserver itself. No go.
>
> Then I thought about where it could possibly be getting all this old code
> from. That's when I realized we have several older jars from past
> deployments lying around (because of classloading problems in the past, we
> don't deploy the same app.jar file each time; we deploy
app-2002-01-01.jar,
> app-2002-01-02.jar, etc.). Perhaps some of you also do this? At any rate,
> when I removed all the older jars, and THEN restarted multiserver, the
site
> started working again. Really weird! None of the old jars were referenced
> anywhere in the conf files. Perhaps multiserver keeps some internal
record?
>
> --
> Chuck Rector
> Internet Exposure, Inc.
> http://www.iexposure.com
> crector@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Web Development - Web Marketing - ISP Services
> (612) 676-1946
>
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