Why does Java application fail to run on Windows if jar file has L-attribute/reparse point
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I'm really hoping that the following rings a bell with someone as we're running out of ideas. Answers or suggestions on how to further diagnose would be much appreciated. We have a Java app that has been running with no problems for 18 months. It is now moving to a new platform running Windows Server 2019 Standard as a VM. On first install everything runs correctly, but periodically the application fails to start and can then only be fixed by re-copying all the jar files. This is temporary as eventually it fails again. After a lot of monitoring we noticed that there is a Windows process that periodically sets the "L" file attribute on all the files and also creates reparse data. This should not be an issue but once this has happened, the JVM ...