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This sounds vaguely like a problem with reentrant code.  I don't think this
is a JServ problem.

> I converted an exam administration system from Perl/CGI to Servlets. I
> tested 
> it (with small sample exams) and everything seemed to work fine. In
> production, however, it intermittantly truncates Session data
> (students' answers are posted and a servlet gets the posted data, puts it
> into 
> a session and puts up a screen asking the student whether that is their
> Final 
> answer. 
> 
> Unfortunately, some answers are truncated. I think it is the form-data itself
> that is being truncated. This only happens when the
> servlet is already running at the time that the exam is posted. The very first
> time it runs (i.e., the first time an exam is posted after the server is
> started) the servles handles the form correctly.
> 
> A kludgy fix would be to have the servlet killed after each exam but
> 
> A. I don't know how to do this
> B. there must be a better way.
> 
> Any suggestions?
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> |
> Time blows wildly against my door       | Justin R. Smith
> Stirring discarded sorrows       | Department of Mathematics and
> Like dead leaves of summers past        |     Computer Science
> Memories of forgotten lore           | Drexel University
> Making way for new tomorrows          | Philadelphia, PA 19104
> New hopes, new fears,                   |
> and new ways that last         | Office: (215) 895-1847
> |
> c Justin R. Smith, March 14, 1994       | Fax:    (215) 895-1582
> 
> My home page: http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~jsmith
> 
> 
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