Hi! It's not possible to remove the first valve from the default Pipeline-Implementatation. There was no special code for first, only for "re-pointing" the next elements. Sorry, I do not have the code at hand right now, but simply try to add a valve ant remove it - see, it's still there. Bye Chris
Please provide a ready-to-test WAR or another setup so we can reproduce the behavior you report. Until that happens, we treat this issue as invalid.
Reopening so I can find it again. This is a bug in StandardPipeline.removeValve, but it's such a minority use- case that I haven't been in a rush to patch it. I should get to it before 5.5.10 gets roled.
This has been fixed in the CVS, and will appear in 5.5.10