Each time I run my web application on TomCat it gives me an error. There is nothing wrong with the .jsp files, just that I have to restart the server and sometimes the complete
For me it turned out to be TGitCache.exe from Tortoise Git. Must be trying to update the icon overlays.
I know this is late but in 2017, using Tomcat 8 this still happens.
The issue is either one of three things.
Clean Tomcar work directory $TOMCAT/work to see if it solved it, and check permissions on work directory structure
Clean Tomcat's working Directory along with Project.
Run and Restart the server and it should work
1) Clean tomcat work directory 2) Restart the workspace(if you are using server inside eclipse). 3) Restart the server.
This works for me.