Problems with Java Mapscript on Tomcat/Windows

[Jeff Hoffmann]

I'm trying to do some Java Mapscript development work using Tomcat on 
Windows and I'm having trouble getting a stable development environment 
going.  I've got a pretty much identical setup on Linux that's been 
going well, but my main development machine is Windows so I'd prefer to 
work on it there instead.  Everything seems to work in Windows until I 
try to reload my web app, then Tomcat crashes pretty spectacularly.  I'm 
using the MS4W (1.5.3) version of mapscript.dll/mapscript.jar & Tomcat 
5.5.17. I've read about problems with reloading, but it sounds like as 
long as you put the mapscript.jar into tomcat/common/lib you shouldn't 
be getting any reloading problems anymore.  Does anyone have any 
suggestions on what I can do to fix my problem?

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Jeff Hoffmann
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