Hi Guy, I'd say that's a bug that needs to be fixed if the configuration file is never loaded. We should have a boolean flag to verify that it's always loaded at least once on initial startup.
Can you open a JIRA issue for this and put this description into it? Thanks. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Guy Bashan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to raise your attention about a weird thing that can happen in > MyFaces and took me a few hours to understand. I am not quite sure this is a > bug, but it certainly can create an undesired behavior: > It seems like there is a new mechanism that allows "auto reloading" of JSF > configuration files. > This mechanism involves dates checking to make sure if file should be > reloaded. > Anyway, there can be a case, in which, files are being deployed in a server > that has different GMT. This will cause web app files to have "future" date. > This issue will cause the configuration files to never be loaded and I > believe that JSF part responsible for loading the files will be "stuck" in a > loop causing the whole web application not to load. > > Hope this information might save you some time if you will even encounter > this issue... > > Guy. >
