Idle servlet won't restart

[Nat Titman <na...@choosemcs.co.uk>]

Hi,

I'm using Tomcat 5.5.3 running as part of an Apache webserver on Fedora 
Core 1.

My webapps are supported by a servlet which serves gif images stored in 
a database, it's mapped to the URL pattern /servlet/image by the 
following XML which is inside the <web-app> tag of the web.xml files for 
two webapps, including ROOT.

     <servlet>
         <servlet-name>DBImageViewer</servlet-name>
         <servlet-class>shared.DBImageViewer</servlet-class>
     </servlet>

     <servlet-mapping>
         <servlet-name>DBImageViewer</servlet-name>
         <url-pattern>/servlet/image</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>

My problem is that after leaving the webapps overnight and returning to 
the site, the image servlet appears to have stopped. While the two 
webapps run fine, the servlet doesn't function until Tomcat is restarted.

Is there some setting or configuration I'm missing which would cause the 
servlet to restart after it has 'idled off', or have I put the servlet 
mapping in the wrong place?

Any advice would help greatly,

Thanks,


Nat.

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