No operations allowed after connection closed.

[Meindert]

How can I force a reconnect after a session has been timed out I was hoping anybody could help me here, it is probably a stupid thing but I can’t seem to find the answer.. My application is based on the jpetshop.   Anyway, I have on my main page a paginated list (employeeList) that must be fetched every time the page is loaded. I set it to null in the reset method of the bean   public void reset() {     pageDirection = null;     employeeList = null;   }   And I call the service layer to do the (simple) query, when I go to index.shtml   public String index() {     setEmployeeList(dailyBulletinService.getOutStaff());     return "success";   }   My problem is that the page loads with an error “after a while” (I assume after the session times out) Pressing F5 in the browser will clear this error. What am I doing wrong or how do I get ride of it? I’m using mysql, tomcat on a linux machine.   The error is: java.sql.SQLException: Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException, underlying cause: null Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No operations allowed after connection closed.   Connection was closed due to the following exception:   ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **   java.sql.SQLException MESSAGE: Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException, underlying cause: null   ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **   java.io.EOFException     Please help   Meindert