Clear web pages cache in jboss
I develop a web app:
- frontend javascript
- transport json
- backend Java EE
- JBoss AS 6.1
All static html and js files are in an exploded .war directory which itself is in an exploded .ear directory.
Normally everything works fine! Today I changed a html file and copied it to the .war directory.
When the browser loaded the file it was the old one. So I started wireshark and saw in wireshark the get request and the returned OLD file, even when I changed the filename in the .war directory.
So there is some caching in jboss. I started Googling and found some posts about the tmp and work folders.
I looked in my "...\server\default\work..." folders, but everything was empty.
In "...\server\default\tmp" I found some files but no one seems to be related to my cached page.
Answer
As this is a tomcat-in-jboss issue, you have to go to the tomcat area in jboss.
In my case ..\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar. In this directory you should find a file called context.xml.
Now stop jboss.
In the context tag there are 2 attributes - cookies and crossContext. Now just add the attribute cachingAllowed="false" and start jboss again:
<Context cookies="true" crossContext="true" cachingAllowed="false">