How is it that an appserver tomcat/bea/jboss.... can kill an app and
unload it even if it has threads running to object instances that are
inuse and not ready for garbage collection?

==== incidently.. what do you use for the speller on the forum posting? fyi- i clicked spell... it gave this error
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HTTP ERROR: 500 Unable to compile class for JSP An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /spell.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] Compiling 1 source file [javac] /tmp/Jetty_216_83_160_154_80__/spell_jsp.java:585: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : class SpellSession [javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.spell_jsp [javac] SpellSession spellSession = (SpellSession)session.getAttribute("jive.spell.spellSession."+forumID+"."+threadID); [javac] ^ An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /spell.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] /tmp/Jetty_216_83_160_154_80__/spell_jsp.java:585: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : class SpellSession [javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.spell_jsp [javac] SpellSession spellSession = (SpellSession)session.getAttribute("jive.spell.spellSession."+forumID+"."+threadID); [javac] ^ An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /spell.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] /tmp/Jetty_216_83_160_154_80__/spell_jsp.java:587: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : variable SpellChecker [javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.spell_jsp [javac] spellSession = SpellChecker.createSession(spellBody); [javac] ^ An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /spell.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] /tmp/Jetty_216_83_160_154_80__/spell_jsp.java:649: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : variable SpellSession [javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.spell_jsp [javac] misspelledWords = (result == SpellSession.MISSPELLED_WORD); [javac] ^ An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /spell.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] /tmp/Jetty_216_83_160_154_80__/spell_jsp.java:650: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : variable SpellSession [javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.spell_jsp [javac] doubledWords = (result == SpellSession.DOUBLED_WORD); [javac] ^ [javac] 5 errors
RequestURI=/spell.jsp