ajax4jsf + form submittal not working for a few hours after deply

[brettcave.brettcave.gmail.com]

Really puzzled by this, cant find a logical solution to this....

Have a jsf page:

<h:form id="signupform">
  <s:validateAll>
    <!-- a few input fields -->
    <s:decorate id="usernameValidation" template="mytemplate.xhtml">
      <h:inputText value="#{signup.register.username}" required="true" validator="usernameValidator">
         <a:support event="onblur" reRender="usernameValidation" bypassUpdates="true" ajaxSingle="true" />
      </h:inputText>
    </s:decorate>
  </s:validateAll>
</h:form>

We have 2 x environments that we deploy to - 1 test and 1 x live. When we deploy to test, everything works fine, but when we deploy this to production, none of our forms work for a few hours.

I have disabled all caching - the problem persists across browser cache deletes and jboss server restarts.... no forms or validation works at all for about 8 hours (but only after a new EAR is built and deployed to jboss).


any ideas? been battling with this for days now :(

[brettcave.brettcave.gmail.com]

was a timezone issue.

our development takes place in a GMT+2 timezone (developer workstations are set to this).
the build server is configured on a GMT-7 timezone, but the file modification time (checked via the "stat" command was set to the GMT+2 time but on the -0700 time zone

Access: 2009-06-26 04:12:52 -0700
Modify: 2009-06-26 11:50:46 -0700
Change: 2009-06-26 04:12:25 -0700

jsf was not rendering correctly until time caught up. because jsf logs everything to stderr, we had set the logging of STDERR on our production AS to be exluded (as everything was logged to stderr, which the AS logs as ERROR, including info, debug and error logs). so we missed the logs about this error (and it wasnt even a very specific error)

the issue is resolved by setting facelets.refresh_period to -1.