Hi all
As a user of Tomcat on NetWare, I've been trying to make Tomcat 5.0.19 work on NetWare6. With a proper startup script, Tomcat 5.0.19 works "out of the box" on NetWare, except for one (major) JSP issue. Tomcat fails to rename newly recompiled JSP's from *.classtmp to *.class. I've tracked the problem to SmapUtil.java, on line 230, a call to renameTo() fails with an IO exception. I expect that this is a NetWare specific issue, relating to the NetWare JVM. If anyone else has experienced this issue on another platform than NetWare, please give some feedback.
I have both a quick hack to fix this issue, and a more proper solution.
The hack:
Edit conf/web.xml, search for "<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>".
put in the path to the "work" dir (eg. /tomcat/5019/work or sys:/tomcat/5019/work )
<init-param> <param-name>scratchdir</param-name> <param-value>/tomcat/5019/work</param-value> </init-param>
This makes the first problem go avay, but creates a new one, as miltiple JSP's might end up being compiled to the same class filename and path.
You can put the JSP servlet declaration in the web.xml of your webapp, so it's a per webapp setting.
-And the proper solution:
In SmapUtil.jave, swap the "static void install(File classFile, byte[] smap)" method with this:
static void install(File classFile, byte[] smap) throws IOException { File tmpFile = new File(classFile.getPath() + "tmp"); new SDEInstaller(classFile, smap, tmpFile);
if (!classFile.delete()) { throw new IOException("classFile.delete() failed"); }
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(tmpFile); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(classFile); byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int i = 0; while((i=fis.read(buf))!=-1) { fos.write(buf, 0, i); } fis.close(); fos.close();
if (!tmpFile.delete()) { throw new IOException("classFile.delete() failed"); } }
Whit this fix, Tomcat 5 runs like a charm on NetWare 6. It would be nice to see this fix (or somthing like it) being includet in the official tomcat code, but I can see that the will to do so might not be there, if this is a NetWare only issue. Anyways just wanted to share my experiences with Tomcat 5 on NetWare.
Obviously, it runs fine on other platforms (and I can't see anything wrong with the current code).
IMO, you should precompile your applications.
Rémy
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