How to clean tomcat cache?

Question

I use code like:

  Thread currentThread=Thread.currentThread();
  ClassLoader classLoader=currentThread.getContextClassLoader();
  InputStream configFile=classLoader.getResourceAsStream("config.xml");

But this code starts to work after 2 - 3 hours. I didn't nothing - only restart, clean, deploy, etc.

I suppose that old jar/class that cannot find file config.xml was in some cache - may be in cache of tomcat or in cache of OS/VM. Does it possible? Thanks.

Answer 1

Unfortunately i can't make comments i dont have 50 reputation yet so i will just write my comment into this answer,

Can you explain more about the code? What tool do you use to prepare the code? How do you deploy it ? My assumption is that if you "only" make a restart, clean and after a deploy it will not work, do it the other way, clean, deploy, restart. If you give more information, i can give you a better answer.

What you can try to do is delete the application cache or set the caching off if you believe its a caching issue

cachingAllowed="false" in confg/context.xml