Upgrading to Jetty 9.1.3 fixed the NullPointerExceptions.  But now, instead of 
the 500 error, I get a 404 not found error for a second while the app is 
redeploying.  So, my question remains: is that normal, or is re-deployment 
supposed to work seamlessly?

Rob


On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Robert Nikander <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ah, this may be fixed in newer Jetty versions.  I’ll try upgrading.
> 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=417475
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Robert Nikander <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Jan, 
>> 
>> I believe the rsync is finished.  I use a shell script and and the two 
>> commands are sequential.  Here is the script, and some log messages.
>> 
>>   #!/bin/bash
>>   rsync -v myapp.war myserver:/opt/webapps
>>   rsync -v deployment/myapp.xml myserver:/opt/jetty/webapps/
>> 
>> If I run that, the logs show a stop and start.
>> 
>>   2014-03-14 12:37:01.706:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:Scanner-0: Stopped 
>> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@358ee631{/myapp,file:/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-myapp.war-_myapp-any-/webapp/,UNAVAILABLE}{/myapp.war}
>>   2014-03-14 12:37:03.644:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:Scanner-0: Started 
>> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@760aa0cd{/myapp,file:/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-myapp.war-_myapp-any-/webapp/,AVAILABLE}{/myapp.war}
>> 
>> I ran the script again, but this time kept reloading a page in the browser, 
>> to trigger an error.  Between the stop and the start messages, I see a bunch 
>> of errors like this:
>> 
>>   2014-03-14 12:37:33.079:WARN:oejs.HttpChannel:qtp121295574-906: 
>> /myapp/static/common/angular/angular-sanitize.min.js
>>   java.lang.NullPointerException
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:192)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:109)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:317)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
>>      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:445)
>>      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:268)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:229)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.run(AbstractConnection.java:358)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:601)
>>      at 
>> org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:532)
>>      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Jan Bartel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Robert,
>>> 
>>> Are you sure that the rsync has finished by the time you touch the xml file?
>>> 
>>> Upgrading is generally a good idea :), but I can't think of anything
>>> specifically that would affect the hot redeployment (other than the
>>> war file not being fully copied).
>>> 
>>> Might be able to comment more if you could post an example of the log 
>>> messages.
>>> 
>>> cheers
>>> Jan
>>> 
>>> On 14 March 2014 02:33, Robert Nikander <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> (I posted on stackoverflow first [1] but no answers, so I'll try here.)
>>>> 
>>>> I have the usual web app deployer as described in the docs [2] and defined 
>>>> in etc/jetty-deploy.xml. I use an xml file to define my web app context, 
>>>> so when I push new code to my production server, I upload a new myapp.war 
>>>> file using `rsync` and then touch that myapp.xml file. This works pretty 
>>>> well, but there are few seconds where the app throws a 
>>>> NullPointerException or other weirdness, and some users appear to be 
>>>> getting corrupt statically served files (.js files from the war), so that 
>>>> they have to flush their browser's cache for the app to work again.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this supposed to work perfectly, or do you expect a brief dead period 
>>>> like this?  Is there a recommended way to deploy new code without the 
>>>> 2-second snafu?
>>>> 
>>>> Jetty is behind nginx with simple proxy configuration, if that matters.  
>>>> I'm running 9.0.5, but could upgrade.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Rob
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [1] 
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22357690/can-jetty-hot-redeployment-work-without-service-interruption
>>>> [2] http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/hot-deployment.html
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>>> 
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