undeployment of ApplicationContext.xml

[tomerl]

I am trying to redeploy a war file in tomcat, one of the jar files in the web app contains an applicationContext.xml file that is being loaded at tomcat startup:

<web-app>
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath*&#58;/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>

when calling tomcat undeploy it fails to delete the jar file containing the applicationContext.xml and so cant deploy it again, I tried to stop the app and then undeploy it but still the file is being referenced and cant be deleted, only solution is to stop tomcat.
is there a way to undeploy the application context file?
thanks

[tomerl]

plethora
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New postPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: Reply with quote
Don't use the Spring classpath*: pseudo URL handler to access resources inside JAR files on operatig systems that perform strict file locking (e.g. Win32 platforms).

There are a number of bugs in the Win32 implementation of the JVM that cause less-than ideal file locking behaviour.