I recently moved from Glassfish back to good old Tomcat because of this classloader leak. With GF, I could typically do no more than 1-2 redeploys before having

I recently moved from Glassfish back to good old Tomcat because of this classloader leak. With GF, I could typically do no more than 1-2 redeploys before having to kill -9 it. That was really painful. We found that we weren't really using many GF/JEE features that couldn't be added to Tomcat as a simple jar dependency (J2EE connection pooling was one nice built-in, but we'll use c3p0 or something similar soon). Tomcat is a breath of fresh air- starts/stops in < 4 seconds, and redeploys never hang.