Re: Tomcat can't 'see' new files

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:37:21 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-34CA9B.17372115032009@web.aioe.org>
In article <8763iarc49.fsf@golem.phantasia.org>,
 Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> wrote:

[...]

Not a problem in this context. (The proper way to do this is
File.createTempFile, I know.)


I tried to reproduce the effect you describe using the versions and code
below. At frequencies > 100 Hz (period < 10 ms), the Timer's period fell
below the task's execution time, and the usual delay in the first task
caused subsequent executions to "bunch up", as described in the API [1];
but I could always browse the first document. It's probably an
irrelevant artifact of Timer, but it may shed light. I enabled directory
listings in web.xml to see the growing list more easily.

See also Dave Miller's suggestion in this thread.

$ ./bin/catalina.sh version
....
Server version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
Server built: Jul 22 2008 02:00:36
Server number: 6.0.18.0
OS Name: Mac OS X
OS Version: 10.5.6
Architecture: ppc
JVM Version: 1.5.0_16-b06-284
JVM Vendor: Apple Inc.

<code>
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

/**
 * @author John B. Matthews
 */
public class TomcatTest {

    private static final int MAX = 100;
    private static final String myDir =
        "/Users/Shared/tomcat/webapps/examples/temp/";
    private static volatile int count;
    private static final Timer timer = new Timer();
    private static final TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {
        public void run() {
            count++;
            try {
                long t = System.currentTimeMillis();
                Writer w = new BufferedWriter(
                    new FileWriter(myDir + t + ".html"));
                String f = ""
                    + "<html>"
                    + "<body>"
                    + "?? la recherche du temps perdu: "
                    + count + " " + new Date(t)
                    + "</body>" + "</html>";
                w.write(f);
                w.flush();
                w.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            if (count == MAX) timer.cancel();
        }
    };

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, 1000L, 100L);
    }
}
</code>

[1] <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Timer.html>

--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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