javax.el.BeanELResolver.properties keeps references to undeployed classes (Class Loader leak) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-3736 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3736 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: EE Affects Versions: 7.1.0.CR1b Environment: Seam 2.2.2 application Reporter: Philippe Guinot Assignee: Stuart Douglas Labels: BeanELResolver, classloader, leak,, memory Fix For: 7.1.3.Final (EAP), EAP 6.1.0.Alpha (7.2.0.Final) This is another Class Loader leak memory issue. When class are loaded into the properties map, they don't get unloaded at undeploy. This cause the whole application's class loader not being garbage collected and so will result in OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space after a few deployments. The solution would be to call the purgeBeanClasses method at undeploy with each of the class loader of all sub-modules of the application. For the moment, the work around I've done was to change {code}private static final ConcurrentHashMap<Class, BeanProperties> properties = new ConcurrentHashMap<Class, BeanProperties>(CACHE_SIZE); {code}to{code} private static final Map<Class<?>, SoftReference<BeanProperties>> properties = Collections.synchronizedMap(new WeakHashMap<Class<?>, SoftReference<BeanProperties>>(CACHE_SIZE)); {code} But I'm not really sure if that's a good idea to replace the ConcurrentHashMap with a SynchronizedMap and I had to change {code}properties.putIfAbsent(baseClass, bps);{code} By{code} synchronized(properties) { if (!properties.containsKey(baseClass)) properties.put(baseClass, new SoftReference<BeanProperties>(bps)); } {code}