Re: [JBoss-user] Re: ClassCastException on redeploy of .ear

[Scott M S. <sco...@at...>]

Its what we consider to be a bug in how Class.forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader)
caches information in the VM. The corresponding ClassLoader.loadClass(String)
call does not have this behavior so at best its an undocumented behavior difference.

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Scott Stark
Chief Technology Officer
JBoss Group, LLC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Martin" <rm...@fi...>
To: <jbo...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] Re: ClassCastException on redeploy of .ear


> I had this exact problem, but with an ejb jar instead of an ear.  I could
> deploy the jar exactly once and it would work fine.  After that I could
> never redeploy it without it permanently breaking.  The only way to fix the
> problem was to shut down the server.  
> 
> After reading this message, I checked my jar and found that a
> jndi.properties file I use for client-side access had sneaked into the file.
> The contents of the jndi.properties were valid, but it shouldn't have been
> in the jar file.  After removing the jndi.properties, everything works fine.
> 
> Question - is the behavior described above a bug or a feature that we were
> accidentally misusing?  It would seem to be a fairly severe vulnerability in
> the server that an errant jndi.properties file in a jar file can permanently
> break the server.  Any insight?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Robert