MyFaces leaves hundreds of JAR files in CATALINA_HOME

[Alex Cooper <ac...@gmail.com>]

 Hi there,

I'm using Tomcat 5.0.28, MyFaces 1.07, Sun JDK 1.4.2, and Win XP Pro.
Everything seems to work fine, except for one very frustrating issue.

MyFaces seems to copy itself hundreds of times into my CATALINA_HOME
directory, in files which are either 630k or 401k in size.

Here's a directory listing:


C:\PROGRA~1\TOMCAT~1.0>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8C40-6880

 Directory of C:\PROGRA~1\TOMCAT~1.0

22/10/2004  04:35 AM    <DIR>          .
22/10/2004  04:35 AM    <DIR>          ..
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          bin
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          common
25/10/2004  04:32 PM    <DIR>          conf
29/08/2004  10:02 AM            11,558 LICENSE
25/10/2004  04:32 PM    <DIR>          logs
22/10/2004  02:17 PM           630,660 myfaces1364.jar
22/10/2004  02:17 PM           401,574 myfaces1365.jar
22/10/2004  02:30 PM           630,660 myfaces1440.jar
22/10/2004  02:30 PM           401,574 myfaces1441.jar
22/10/2004  02:33 PM           630,660 myfaces1552.jar
22/10/2004  02:33 PM           401,574 myfaces1553.jar
22/10/2004  02:39 PM           630,660 myfaces1660.jar
22/10/2004  02:39 PM           401,574 myfaces1661.jar
22/10/2004  02:42 PM           630,660 myfaces1766.jar
22/10/2004  02:42 PM           401,574 myfaces1767.jar
22/10/2004  02:42 PM           630,660 myfaces1768.jar
22/10/2004  02:42 PM           401,574 myfaces1769.jar
22/10/2004  02:44 PM           630,660 myfaces1882.jar
22/10/2004  02:44 PM           401,574 myfaces1883.jar
22/10/2004  02:44 PM           630,660 myfaces1884.jar

<SNIP>

20/10/2004  08:02 PM           401,574 myfaces59666.jar
20/10/2004  08:02 PM           630,660 myfaces59667.jar
20/10/2004  08:02 PM           401,574 myfaces59668.jar
19/10/2004  10:37 PM           630,660 myfaces6765.jar
19/10/2004  10:37 PM           401,574 myfaces6766.jar
19/10/2004  10:38 PM           630,660 myfaces6767.jar
19/10/2004  10:38 PM           401,574 myfaces6768.jar
19/10/2004  10:40 PM           630,660 myfaces6769.jar
19/10/2004  10:40 PM           401,574 myfaces6770.jar
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          server
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          shared
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          temp
29/08/2004  10:06 AM            21,630 tomcat.ico
19/10/2004  10:36 PM            63,089 Uninstall.exe
25/10/2004  04:24 PM    <DIR>          webapps
19/10/2004  10:36 PM    <DIR>          work
             135 File(s)     68,223,721 bytes
              11 Dir(s)  47,722,835,968 bytes free



Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Has anyone else seen this problem
before? I'm not treating the MyFaces libraries any differently to any
others (they're in WEB-INF/lib). Incidentally, the same code under
Linux had the same problem, and different JDK's didn't help.

Thanks heaps,

- sasha.