Re: hotdeploy of war files results in static variable being null

Hi, as far as I know Tomcat's WebappClassloader sets final static references to null upon re-deployments to prevent memory leaks. The following page describes what's happening: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/Logging/StaticLog One possible solution would be not to use static loggers.

Re: hotdeploy of war files results in static variable being null

oaded from WEB-INF/lib. Can anybody explain what's happening here and who's to blame for this error? Thanks a lot, -Felix Felix Gnass wrote: Hi, as far as I know Tomcat's WebappClassloader sets final static references to null upon re-deployments to prevent memory leaks.