RE: Buggy java native call kills tomcat

2013-04-03 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dale Ogilvie [mailto:dale_ogil...@trimble.com] > Subject: Buggy java native call kills tomcat > My question: can we protect ourselves from total instance failure, i.e. > restrict the damage to the death of just the app calling the native > library? Is there a way to mak

Buggy java native call kills tomcat

2013-04-03 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi all, Saw this recently... Some java native code included in our tomcat deployment contained an error, which caused a JVM segfault when a webapp called the routine. I was startled by the fact that this native code error brought down the entire tomcat instance (all 15+ web apps) due to a f