Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.

Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.

 

Question: What causes these frequent Tomcat catalina.log messages "INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already."? I do not want to disable INFO level logging, so it would be nice to stop the root of the problem. I tried disabling RSS and Lucence and they still keep coming out. The full log entry looks like this: May 8, 2005 9:34:09 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.

 

 

A:I found this explanation from web: It is possible that this is caused by Tomcat unsuccessfully reloading the web application. The app is unloaded, but all threads don't get shut down properly. As a result, when the threads try to run, they get clobbered by the fact that Tomcat has shut down its classloader, and an error is logged. The best fix is to turn off automatic webapp reloading for the application: in Tomcat's server.xml, find the <Context> declaration, and ensure it is set to: reloadable="false"