How to prevent file locking when undeploying a Tomcat web app?

Question

I am using the manager app in tomcat 7, and i am unable to undeploy an application completely.

It says FAIL - Unable to delete [F:\\apache-tomcat-7.0.33\\weba

Answer 1

This is very common in Windows environment but there is a solution via the antiResourceLocking context property:

Open context.xml from /tomcat/conf folder and modify the context to match this :

Edit: Updated properties following @JanM comment. Previously it also contained 'antiJARLocking'