i have read, and re-read, all of the postings on class (re)loading in relation to deployed applications inside orion. yet, i still have some unanswered questions.
in my past experience, compiling classes to the ./WEB-INF/classes directory and touching either the web.xml or application.xml file will cause the new classes to be picked up and used. all objects that are in session are serialized and available after the application is re-deployed without having to re-start orion. however, i am now experiencing a situation wherein i'm losing my session information and being forced to re-login to my application to continue development. is there a set of criteria or implemenation details i'm missing. all objects are obviously serializable or they would not be able to be stored in a session. yet, my latest encounters with class reloading makes me doubt this assertion. any ideas/paths i can explore to making my development life less hell-like? thanks, ted rice
