Hi, I am using Tomcat 6.0.32 with the Http11NioProtocol connector to implement long polling.
My comet processor is holding the HttpSevletResponse (After receiving a CometEvent.BEGIN) on a queue until an event is ready to send back. When it sends back the event, it is writing a binary stream to an applet, so I use response.getOutputStream().write() to send data back. When writing to the stream it is synchronized. I close the OutputStream when finished try { response.setHeader("messageId", messageId); //wrapper for the OutputStream. auctionObjectOutput = new AuctionObjectOutput(response.getOutputStream()); // write to OutputStream auctionObjectOutput.writeObject(event); } finally { try { //internally calls out.flush() and out.close() auctionObjectOutput.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { LogHandler.issueCritical(ex); } } This works and I can continually long poll for new data from the Applet. Problem: Occasionally (like 0.1% of the time), when another web page in a second frame reloads (Independent JSP generated from SpringController in same container) the page loads with what appears to be the byte stream for the applet and I get the following stack trace. It seems from the logs that the when the framed page reloads it is somehow retrieving a stale response object (ie. not recycled properly by the connector). Could this happen and it this likely to be an issue? java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.getWriter(Response.java:611) at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.getWriter(ResponseFacade.java:198) at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getWriter(ServletResponseWrapper.java:112) at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getWriter(ServletResponseWrapper.java:112) at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getWriter(ServletResponseWrapper.java:112) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.initOut(JspWriterImpl.java:125) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:118) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.write(JspWriterImpl.java:326) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.write(JspWriterImpl.java:342) at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.lot_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f0(lot_jsp.java:476) at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.lot_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fwhen_005f0(lot_jsp.java:429) at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.lot_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fchoose_005f0(lot_jsp.java:384) at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.lot_jsp._jspService(lot_jsp.java:116) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:386) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:646) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:551) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:488) at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:229) at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1031) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:815) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:717) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:164) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:406) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:343) at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:109) at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:83) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:97) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:100) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:78) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:54) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter.doFilter(RequestCacheAwareFilter.java:35) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:187) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilter(LogoutFilter.java:105) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:79) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.session.ConcurrentSessionFilter.doFilter(ConcurrentSessionFilter.java:109) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355) at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:149) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:237) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:167) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at 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