On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:36 AM, David Avendasora wrote:

> Okay, Steve Meyer figured it out.
> 
> The app started up just fine, but the first time the "Inbox" class was 
> called, it called it's superclass which has a static variable that loads a 
> set of EOs from the database.

That sounds a little... dangerous.  ERXEnterpriseObjectCache anyone?



> That DB connection failed, which left the superclass uninitialized and 
> therefor basically corrupt, and therefor the NoClassDefFoundError.
> 
> I think we'll be digging around looking for more issues like this. Soon.
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS, Sorry about the lack of stack trace.
> 
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
> 
>> Any exceptions in the log on start up?  Were you upgrading something?  Are 
>> you sure that this one instance did not just _not_ restart and so no see the 
>> new code?
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else ever seen this:
>>> 
>>> We have a server that is running 4 instances of one of our apps. Last night 
>>> we restarted one of the instances and apparently it didn't properly load 1 
>>> class that is part of one of our internal frameworks.
>>> 
>>> Every time a user tried a feature that used that one class, we got 
>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. The other instances of the same app started 
>>> from the same files on the hard drive were running fine.
>>> 
>>> We restarted the affected instance and that eliminated the problem.
>>> 
>>> We couldn't find any errors in any of the logs that would explain why the 
>>> class wouldn't have properly loaded.
>>> 
>>> It's all fine now, but this was a very strange issue.
>>> 
>>> Anyone ever run into something like that?
>>> 
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