Serving static resources outside webapp in Tomcat 5.5.25

Hello, We have a web application (app) running on Tomcat 5.5.9 deployed on the default tomcat webapp directory ([TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps). This application has a context.xml file which defines access to static external resources (image files, video files, etc.) this way: ?xml version=1.0

Access to static external resources from a webapp in Tomcat 5.5.25.

Hello, For a webapp deployed on Tomcat 5.5.9 to access static external resources (images, videos, etc), which we don't want to be deleted when the application is undeployed, we use the following entry on the context.xml file of the webapp, under the META-INF directory of the web application:

PernGen memory leak with Tomcat 5.5.9

zyx.mvc.ControlServlet Why these resources are not destroyed? We have been looking at the http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14042 and since this bug is fixed from struts version 1.2.7, we think this can not be the problem. Any idea? Thanks in advance, -- Félix Pedrera