Tomcat Session Replication not working with Spring 3.2

[awisrf]

Hi
I've tried to migrate a webapp from Spring 3.1.3 to 3.2.0. The application is using <mvc:annotation-driven>. After upgrading the Spring dependencies, Tomcat session replication has stopped to work.

In the web.xml there is:

<distributable/>

In the server.xml there is:

<Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster"/>

During Tomcat startup I can see in the logs that everything concerning the SimpleTcpCluster seems to work. The application is just not recognizing the cluster-setup.

Analyzing with JConsole gives the following MBean values:

3.1.3:
 - Catalina.Manager.${ServletContext}.localhost.Attributes.className: org.apache.catalina.session.DeltaManager
 - Catalina.Manager.${ServletContext}.localhost.Attributes.distributable: true
3.2.0:
 - Catalina.Manager.${ServletContext}.localhost.Attributes.className: org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager
 - Catalina.Manager.${ServletContext}.localhost.Attributes.distributable: false

Any ideas what is going wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[Dyas]

Hi,
today i have the same problem as you. The reason is, that with https://github.com/SpringSource/spri...ddebcaee5b9e29 the web-fragment.xml are added.

On statup the tomcat read your web.xml and set distributable = true. Than the tomcat scan your jar's for web-fragment.xml's and merge these. If one fragment is not distributable the whole application is not distributable. The web-fragment.xml under https://github.com/SpringSource/spri...urces/META-INF is not marked as distributable, so is your application is not distributeable.

My workaround are to remove the web-fragment.xml in the spring-web-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar, also you can add <distributable/> to the web-fragment.xml.

[awisrf]

Thanks. I hope I can give it a try today.

[Marten Deinum]

The reason is, that with https://github.com/SpringSource/spri...ddebcaee5b9e29 the web-fragment.xml are added.

Good catch, could you register a JIRA issue so that this can be fixed. This must have been an unfortunate side effect of adding the fragment.

[Dyas]

I already created an Issue https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10219 and create a pull request to fix it

[kmj7777]

I already created an Issue https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10219 and create a pull request to fix it

I'm having the same issue. I created a new version of the web-fragment.xml since 3.2.2 is not out yet, but my sessions still aren't being replicated using a JDBCStore I set up. Is there anything else I need to do? I'm not seeing any other fragments in any jars in my web application.