We are experiencing Tomcat failure as soon as the following exception gets thrown;

SEVERE: Exception invoking periodic operation: 
java.lang.ThreadDeath
        at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1229)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent.<init>(LoggingEvent.java:241)
        at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:431)
        at org.apache.log4j.Category.log(Category.java:966)
        at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.error(Log4JLogger.java:195)
        at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:659)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4272)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:3021)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.backgroundProcess(StandardContext.java:4629)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1619)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1608)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

This exception we have discovered mostly occurs after a developer compiles classes to 
Tomcat which makes Tomcat restart the context. Mostly, because sometimes it is fine. 
We cannot establish a concrete pattern of behaviour except that some compiles of any 
class type that make TC reload the webapp cause this unercoverable error.

This has happened with log4j1.2.8 and 1.3alpha0

Cheers, ADC


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