Session expiry and SessionListener problems with cluster

Hi, I'm just playing with the Tomcat 5.5.4 cluster and encountered 2 oddities: a) If have left expireSessionsOnShutdown=false in the configuration I understand that this will expire the session in the local node but leave it alive in the other cluster nodes. However I found out that the session

Re: Problem with Sessions...is this a Tomcat bug?

Gabriel Belingueres wrote: Hi, I just discovered a weird thing: I have a Tomcat 4.1.12 running in my machine, which is called ale2000, and I test my app using http://localhost:8080/xx as the url (not the machine name configured in Windows) When some of the html page make a request to the app,

Re: Session expiry and SessionListener problems with cluster

for the variable, I agree - Original Message - From: Christoph Kutzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:00 AM Subject: Session expiry and SessionListener problems with cluster Hi, I'm just playing with the Tomcat 5.5.4 cluster and encountered 2

Re: Chirag: Can Tomcat Server be surfed from the Machine where the Server it is running

Chirag wrote: I think tomcat-5.5.2 cannot work in JDK1.4 Am I correct I mean as per this page http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.5.4/README.html It says though it is of version 5.5.4 that it requires Tomcat 5.5 requires JRE 5.0 by default You can install a compatibility

Re: Why is tomcat (java) so memory intensive?

Philippe Deslauriers wrote: I am using Tomcat 5.0.19 on Windows XP SP2, J2SDK 1.4.2_03. I have a serious memory problem with Tomcat, it just EAT memory without explanation, until OOM error occurs. The Java.exe process in the windows task manager reports using between 95Mb and 105Mb after the

Re: Memory Leak with Javac and Tomcat v. 4.0.28

Dakota Jack wrote: I was going to update my Tomcat from 4.0.19 because it says there is a javac leak in the RELEASE-NOTES. However, I noticed that 4.0.28 says the same thing. Is it fixed/ Jack AFAIK this is no Tomcat issue but a JDK/Javac issue which was fixed in Sun JDK 1.4. See:

Re: HttpSession usage

Pawson, David wrote: Which then raises the question, do I (can I) check that a user has cookies enabled? HttpSession sess = request.getSession(true); if( sess.isNew() ) logger.info(pNew Session/p); else logger.info(pExisting Session/p); Hi, check the API. You can probably

Re: Problem with HTTPServletRequest

Hi, Peter Monz wrote: Hi All, I have quite a problem with HTTPServletReuquest in some Servlets sometimes. Sometimes if I access HTTPServletRequest in Servlet I get only a null-Pointer and my Servlet crashes. But I can see in a HTTP-trace, created with a spy programm that the date will be sent from

Re: Getting other Sessions

Hi, looks to me that this was included in a previous version of the API, but was removed for security reasons: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionContext.html Therefore the only way to get all sessions is probably a SessionListener. HTH Christoph Dale, Matt

Re: Using new JDK 5.0 language features with Tomcat 5.5?

AFAIK the eclipse JDT compiler, that is used per default to compile the JSPs, doesn't support JDK 5.0 features. So you mustn't use these features in JSPs or change the JSP compiler. Christoph Petr Jiricka wrote: Hello list, is it safe to use the new JDK 5.0 language features, e.g. annotations

Re: Using new JDK 5.0 language features with Tomcat 5.5?

Rodrigo Avila wrote: since we're talking about that... I have a system running *perfectly* using Tomcat 5.0.28 and Java 1.4.2_07. But I think in migrate this system to Java 1.5.0_01 using Tomcat 1.5.7, in an Production server. My question is: have any problem in make this migration? What is the

Re: 5.5.8 release timeframe?

5.5.8 is already released, but it is marked as alpha. Andy Kriger wrote: I've read the FAQ regarding 'when it's ready' and I haven't seen anything about this in the mailing list archives, however, I still need to be able to answer this question for my boss. We started up the 5.5 path with .4,

Re: Tomcat 5 java.lang.outOfMemory

Solution a: Increase the heap memory further Solution b: Decrease the memory usage of your application Francesco Pellegrini wrote: Hi all, I have an environment with Tomcat 5.0.19 and java 1.4.02, on windows 2000 server platform. Tomcat 5 was installed with Services. I have changed in catalina.bat

Re: Tomcat5.0.x - Proxy (pippoProxy)

I have no experience with it. But this article might be helpful for you: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2005/jw-0228-pippo.html Acácio Furtado Costa wrote: Hi list, Does anyone know about Pippo Proxy?. This is a 100% pure Java HTTP proxy designed and implemented for TomCat. IF so, Is it

Validator 0.5.5 doesn't have this bug anymore (Re: OT - Beware of Firefox + HTML Validator Extension)

Good point, I stumbled upon this, too. Thinking this was a Firefox bug, I even filed a bug report against it. Note: The latest version of HTML Validator (0.5.5) fixed this bug. At least no more problems in my case. greetings, Christoph Harry Mantheakis wrote: I thought I should share this with

Re: One request per session

Hi, are you tying to prevent one user to only make one request at a time? Then a ServletFilter may serve your needs. Here : http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/24/loadcontrol.html is a possible solution to restrict requests from one user. I haven't tried it myself yet, but the article

Re: [ANN] Tomcat 5.5.9 voted stable

Yoav Shapira wrote: Please note that while all core features have been tested and voted stable, there is a known issue in this build related to the clustering module. The fix for this issue is available by itself at Bugzilla, and will be included in subsequent Tomcat releases. Again, this issue

Re: Garbage Collection

Calling System.gc() is considered to be a bad thing since this would trigger a major garbage collection which would take relatively long, compared with a minor collection. Besides this: Tomcat knows that it has nothing to do in right this moment. But does that mean that is always a good idea to

Re: Garbage Collection

benefit. Bernard Durfee -Original Message- From: Christoph Kutzinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:32 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Garbage Collection Calling System.gc() is considered to be a bad thing since this would trigger a major garbage collection

Re: Garbage Collection

BTW: If you are worried about gc pause time: have you trid the concurrent mark sweep garbage collector? Christoph Kutzinski wrote: If you know that no or only few users are currently logged in, you can trigger System.gc() yourself. I think Tomcat has no reliable way to know how busy its webapps

Re: Off-topic question: Does Hibernate have a mailing list?

Why is the forum quiet? I count more than 30 new posts today. Guy Katz wrote: try http://www.hibernate.org/20.html -Original Message- From: Behrang Saeedzadeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:01 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Off-topic question: Does Hibernate

Re: Java class is reloaded automatically?

Hi, are you debugging Tomcat when this happens? Then this is maybe related to class hotswapping Christoph Kent Tong wrote: Hi, I notice that in Tomcat 5.5 changes to my Java class take effects without reloading the app. The content is not marked as reloadable. There is no message in the console

Re: How do I handle International Characters

Lutz Zetzsche wrote: Hi Harry, Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 20:53 schrieb Harry Mantheakis: Browsers should (and mostly do, I think) respect the encoding you specify when setting the response content-type (and the meta-tag content-type) so you can simply assume (in your filter) that your form-data

Re: HttpSessionListener

I suspect that the Listener class is not found on the production server. You should check your deployment. Are you deplyoing via WAR files in both cases? Randy George wrote: Hi Jacob, Thanks for the reply. My situation is a little more straightforward than the replication

Re: HttpSessionListener

Hi Randy, Randy George wrote: Hi Will and Christopher, Good thought. I shut down Tomcat and started it again with a clean set of logs: localhost.2005-05-25.log . . May 25, 2005 11:22:17 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()

Re: .pst file type unknown in tomcat

Hi, filext.com ist usually useful in such cases: http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=pstSubmit3=Go%21 application/winframe is suggested at the bottom of the page. HTH, Christoph Marot Laurent wrote: I don't know what to put in the mime-type attribute mime-mapping

Re: RequestDumperValve stuff in my logs

Open your server.xml, search for RequestDumperValve, comment out the element, restart Tomcat, done. Anthony Smith wrote: How can I get this type of stuff to stop printing in my catalina_log files: 2005-06-10 00:00:14 RequestDumperValve[Standalone]:

Re: Tomcat keeps growing in size on Win32

Tomcat really uses File.deleteOnExit()? This method has a known memory leak (not only on win32) for quite some time. See: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4513817 Ed Hamilton wrote: Thanks, Robson, for the reply. I have all the latest versions of everything: Tomcat: 5.5.9

Re: tomcat does not like cmdline args of wget?

Are there any special chars in theUser and/or thePass that could possibly escaped in the URL and/or by the shell? E.g. Umlauts, Whitespace, %, ... Or are you really literally writing wget http://theUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/someURL ? Holger Klawitter wrote: QM wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at

Re: tomcat does not like cmdline args of wget?

Holger Klawitter wrote: Christoph Kutzinski wrote: wget --http-user=theUser --http-passwd=thePass http://theHost/someURL vs. wget http://theUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/someURL with BASIC auth Or are you really literally writing wget http://theUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/someURL of course

Re: isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() returns false

Michael Jouravlev wrote: Hi, I hope am I in the right mail-list with this question. I guess that if I use Tomcat, then HttpRequest.isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() is implemented by Tomcat. I have a request, which contains *both* session ID in cookie *and* session ID in the rewritten URL.

Re: Out of memory

Hi, first: You should start a new discussion thread, if you have a new question instead of answering to an existing one. Readers may not see your question if you don't. -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy works good for me (with Java 5.0). Just give the VM a very big maximum heap size and the gc

Re: SV: Compression doesn't work :(

How are you testing that nothing is compressed? E.g. which browser? smmarrt wrote: No, Tomcat treats this value in bytes. :( yvind Johansen : Without knowing the proper way to configure compression, it looks like you have configured it to not compressing anything smaller than 2048kbyte? But

Register custom CharsetProvider by a webapplication

Hi, I'm trying to install a custom CharsetProvider (UTF7) with my web application (i.e. deliver a JAR with a META-/services/java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider entry in WEB-INF/lib) However the CharsetProvider isn't recognized when it comes to parsing (i.e. calling

Re: Can't rename a file using renameTo()

Hi, I would guess that there is a security policy in JBoss that prevents JBoss (and its integrated Tomcat) from writing outside some special directories (e.g. its working directory and the temp directory). There is surely a way to lessen this security restriction, but that is obviously a

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

There only relevant question here is: How is a application server defined? As Richard Mixon already pointed out, there are many definitions under which Tomcat IS an application server. For many others however application server is equivalent to full J2EE application server (or something like

Re: Make webapp jars downloadable

Write a Servlet that streams the JAR content to the Webstart clients and point to the servlet in the JNLP files. Andrea Aime wrote: Hi, I have the following problem: I'm deploying a web app that exposes web services and allows the client to install a web started client. Now, the client and

Re: invalidated session

Yes, you shouldn't rely on finalizers to clean-up session objects. Better do it in your listener. Len Popp wrote: I'm pretty sure that the finalizers are only called when garbage collection reclaims the objects, and that will be some time after the session is invalidated. Possibly a very long

Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

Check this for a way to implement this with Tomcat (you must use 5.5 ore higher, though): http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wholder/archive/2005/02/session_session.html Or this is a solution I found with an external authentication server:

Re: generate image by servlet for large amount of requests

Yes, a good idea would be not to hijack someone elses discussion thread and start a new one instead. Then probably more people will read your question. Regarding your original question: no idea Tony Smith wrote: Any ideas? --- Tony Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's think about

Re: Where are my tomcat icons in Eclipse 3.1? How to use Tomcat with Maven and Eclipse 3.1?

Are you referring to the Sysdeo Tomcat launcher? This is an external plugin, not part of a fresh Eclise install, you have to install it manually. Otherwise: the tutorial is about the WTP. Have you installed it properly with all dependencies? In that case you can start your project with the

Re: Is tc-5.5.9 as stable as 5.0.28?

I've never heard about unstabilities in 5.5.9. I use it in my development environment for some time without any issues (however I'm still using 5.0.19 in production). One question: if you're happy with 5.0.28 why switch to 5.5.9? Never change a running system (unless you have very good

Re: Tomcat 5.5 Memory (not in catalina.sh anymore).

Hi, the Tomcat FAQ describes how to adjust the memory settings. Christoph Dave Morrow wrote: Hi all. I recently updated to Tomcat 5.5 All is well, with one exception. In prior releases (4.1) I could edit the catalina.sh script to adjust the memory settings. Where would I do this in

Re: Tiles

This is a Struts/Tiles related question, you should ask in the Struts mailing lists. Dewitte Rémi wrote: Hi ! I make a definition in which i put a list of tiles to include but I can't achieve to do this eg : in my tiles-defs.xml : definition name=page1-def extends=baseDef put

Re: Problem with refreshing JSP

Rob Hills wrote: Hi Rahul, On 12 Jul 2005 at 8:19, Rahul Joshi wrote: It is Tomcat that has these compiled files which it continues to read from work/Catalina/localhost/ instead of the new ones. The questions is how do we make Tomcat clear or over-write these stored compiled files. If

Re: Depreciated?

I assume that you mean by req a HttpServletRequest. Why do you think that getSession(boolean) is deprecated? I've found no clue that it is. Christoph Christopher Molnar wrote: I understand HttpSession session=req.getSession(true); has been depreciated. What is correct to use in place of

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

Your message was not bounced, I already got the first one (then the second and then this one). Please check the list before reposting. John Pedersen wrote: Bounced twice... -- Forwarded message -- From: John Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jul-2005 08:03 Subject:

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

Pedersen wrote: Sorry - I should have checked the list. But I just got a response telling me that the email I sent to the list was undeliverable... John On 16/07/05, Christoph Kutzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your message was not bounced, I already got the first one (then the second

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

John Pedersen wrote: Here is what I have at the top of my web.xml (I have tried variations!): !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd; web-app I haven't paid attention to this before. You do use JSTL

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

Hi, my Tomcat 5.5.9 has the commons-logging-api.jar in the bin directory. Did you look there, too? John Pedersen wrote: I am still stuck with this one (shouldn't have posted it on a Saturday morning!). I don't think it is my web.xml giving the problem - I am looking into possible problems

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

there, you will probably get it clue what is happening. Christoph Christoph Kutzinski wrote: Hi, my Tomcat 5.5.9 has the commons-logging-api.jar in the bin directory. Did you look there, too? John Pedersen wrote: I am still stuck with this one (shouldn't have posted it on a Saturday morning

Re: Fwd: ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator

John Pedersen wrote: Christoph, I think there may be a little delay with the mailing list. The problem is solved. For reference, yes, I too have the commons-logging-api.jar in the bin directory! Wonder why it was put there - that seems a little inconsistent, but I don't know enough about

Re: Problem with refreshing JSP

Travis Stevens wrote: The other thing to note about reloading JSPs is that tomcat 5.5 seems to copy ones web context directory into its own webapps directory. Any changes to the original JSPs will not show up unless you physically copy the JSP from the original directory to the webapps

Re: Connection pool

Start a new discussion thread instead of hijacking this one. And if you do that: give more information. What have you done so far? have you read the documentation? What are the error messages, if you already at that point? etc. etc. Sridhar wrote: Can anyone help how to create Connection

Re: What commands to run in the Tomcat Debug Mode on Linux

Wendy Smoak wrote: I'm also unsure of the difference between 'run' and 'start'. If you just type 'catalina.bat' with no parameters, it prints out a usage statement that lists 'jpda start' but not 'run jpda'. Since it lists both 'run -security' and 'start -security' separately I have to wonder

Re: restarting tomcat in production

Agreed, and if you have any session information and the session can't be (for whatever reason) be de/serialized, it would indeed be a very bad idea to restart tomcat. Christoph Robert Harper wrote: The best practice is to find the leak and fix it. Restarting is a cover up to a problem that

Re: how to set index.faces as welcome-file

Create a dummy index.faces file. I did it this wy with Struts and index.do so I assume it should work with faces, too. hth, Christoph Marten Lehmann wrote: Hello, I tried to put the following into web.xml: welcome-file-list welcome-fileindex.faces/welcome-file /welcome-file-list But

Re: Session ID's

That wouldn't make much sense IMO. What about links to external hosts or to different contexts on the same host? It would be a security hole to give them your session id. (One could handle this partly by only applying the rewrite to relative URLs) What about links to images, css, javascript

Re: How to turn off perssitent sessions in Tomcat 4.1?

Only put objects into the session that are serializable. This is a best practice anyway. Tomcat complains about CoyoteRequestFacade not being serializable because it isn't. If you need data from the request (parameter, attributes etc.) in your session then extract them and put them alone into

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

FYI: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/changelog.html Tomcat 5.5.10 ... Update to JDT from Eclipse 3.1, with support for Java 5 However 5.5.10 is still alpha Christoph Patrick Thomas wrote: Thanks Chuck, I definitely wouldn't have noticed that without the pointer. Oh well, I

Re: tomcat exception of broken pipes

AFAIK these exceptions occur if someone requests a resource (HTML-Page, image, ...) and then closes the connection before all data was sent. I.e. click the stop-button or click on a different Hyperlink. AFAIK one can do nothing to prevent these Exceptions in the log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Java 1.4.2_08 and up breaks Jstl

Hi, I'm not convinced by that forum thread. It's very hard to believe that there is such a severe bug in Java 1.4.2_06 *that isn't fixed yet* Do you have a link to a Sun Bugparade entry describing the problem? Christoph Martyn Hiemstra wrote: Hi All I have found a Bug in Java 1.4.2_08

Re: Java 1.4.2_08 and up breaks Jstl

It would probably help, if you would describe what you did (i.e. what is your source code, your environment, tomcat version , etc.) and what does mean the bug happens (i.e. error messages, stack traces, etc.) Now we have just the analogue of My car works on road a but not on road b. Do you

Re: persistence with sessions distributable attribute

Hi Nishant, where did you read that distributable will *enforce* serializability? AFAIK distributable only means that your sessions can be distributed to different tomcat nodes (i.e. a cluster). It doesn't enforce anything, you have to make sure that your session attributes are serializable by

Re: persistence with sessions distributable attribute

docs). There is explained what Serialization really means. Christoph Lintang JP wrote: I'm referring to this document on : http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/14/clustering.html?page=2 The words Serializable here would mean for session replication, right ? CMIIW. On 8/17/05, Christoph

Re: persistence with sessions distributable attribute

: Thanks for the input. Any idea how I can *catch* errors during serialization? I am guessing I will have to create my own PersistanceManager and override some functions.. Has anyone done this (or any other method of doing this)? On 8/17/05, Christoph Kutzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't say

Re: persistence with sessions distributable attribute

it is implemented this way, because if one session isn't serializable the probability is very high that other sessions are not serializable, either. So if you want to change this behaviour, you will probably have to implement your own PersistanceManager. On 8/18/05, Christoph Kutzinski [EMAIL

Re: Java 1.4.2_08 and up breaks Jstl

Hi Martyn, I have 2 suggestions. I) I suspect that the 2 dots in the value *might* be the problem. I.e. have you tried this: c:out value=${person.language} / II) You are using Jakarta Taglibs JSTL. Have you upgraded this to the latest stable version? This could be an incompability between an

Re: Viewing PDF in Internet Explorer

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have been more clear in stating my problem. I am using a Reporting software with Tomcat. The Reporting servlet receives the report request, passes it to the Reporting Server (lives where the data is), and the Reporting Server sends it back to the client

Re: tomcat/jvm shutdown very slow after enabling JMX remote management...

You should only set the JMX JAVA_OPTS for startup. If you use the same JAVA_OPTS for shutdown, the shutdown-VM will unsuccessfully try to start a JMX server on port . That's what taking so long. Joe R. Lindsay wrote: If found an old post mentioning the same issue, but no resolution or

Re: The process tomcat {pid 1488.0000 } is leaking handles

This Peregrine Get Answers application is probably leaking file handles. Ask their support. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a server running Peregrine Get Answers which use TOMCAT as part of its installation We are seeing (via task manager) a slow build up of handles for the tomcat app..

Re: The process tomcat {pid 1488.0000 } is leaking handles

have and they put it down to being the Tomcat application - not much use at all! On task manager it does indicate that tomcat is at fault.. -Original Message- From: Christoph Kutzinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 11:40 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: The process

Re: The process tomcat {pid 1488.0000 } is leaking handles

...speaking to my server support area - they have seen the same problem on other servers running tomcat -Original Message- From: Christoph Kutzinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 12:14 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: The process tomcat {pid 1488. } is leaking

Re: Tomcat autoDeploy problem on Unix

Do you create the WAR file on Windows and deploy to Solaris? Have you checked that the system clocks are in sync? Have you checked that the file attributes are ok on Solaris? Have you tried to touch the war file? Olena Mitovska wrote: Hi, We have Tomcat 5.5.7 installed on Solaris 9 and the

Re: Problems with utf-8 encoding - continue

Jilles van Gurp wrote: Oracle on the other hand cannot insert strings larger than 4KB with setString so you need to use setCharacterStream. FYI: This is common knowledge that used to be right, but isn't anymore. With the Oracle 10g JDBC driver you can set arbitrary length strings with

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

Hi, it is only since 5.5.10 5.5.10 was already released, but it is only supposed to be alpha. I.e. not recommended for production use. I have no idea, when the next stable tomcat version will be released Christoph Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Well, after many many hours' search (seems like not

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

? Actually, I'm more interested in using the new for loop in Java5 than using generic. Christoph Kutzinski wrote: Hi, it is only since 5.5.10 5.5.10 was already released, but it is only supposed to be alpha. I.e. not recommended for production use. I have no idea, when the next stable tomcat

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

is this affecting the use of Tomcat 5.5.9? I am using Java 5 features with Tomcat 5.5.9 without any problems, so what do I need to do to discover Tomcat 5.5.9 shortcomings with respect to Java 5? Regards, BTJ Christoph Kutzinski wrote: What's what story? Java 5 features are not supported in latest tomcat

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

To be clear: You are using Java 5 features (generics, for-each loop etc.) in JSPs? Bjørn T Johansen wrote: Nope, I am just using the default installation and configurations... BTJ Christoph Kutzinski wrote: To be honest, I never tried it with 5.5.9 I just concluded it from the release

Re: Generic Types support in Tomcat?

You should start a new discussion thread. I cannot see how this is even remotely related to generic types and Tomcat. Santosh Asbe wrote: Hi all, A] I am using tomcat 4.1.30 ( 32 bit) with Apache 2.0.46 ( this is standard apache which comes with RHEL 3.0). I am currently using RHEL 32 bit