Hey all, had a quick question about the setup in the Subject and
threading in Java.  I have a servlet that runs it's own thread using
TimerTask running in tomcat.  The problem is, when I go into the tomcat
manager and restart the specific context, the existing thread continues
to run, but then starts a new one also.  I know it is still running
because this thread sends me an email once a day.  So if I restart the
instance 3 times, I get 3 emails at once.  Now get this....it will not
end the threads even when restarting the tomcat server.  I actually
have to reboot the server to shut off these runaway threads.

Second issue I have is when I change the web.xml file within my context
(i.e. to add a new servlet definition), and restart the context, it
will not pick up the new web.xml unless I restart tomcat.

Neither one of these issues occur on a 32-bit Xeon Linux server running
an exact copy of tomcat.

Any ideas or has anyone else experience problems like this?

Thanks!
Scott