Allow to put jboss cache and log4j libs in the WEB-INF/lib dir. The Cache#shutdown and Cache#stop methods are not blocking an provok errors when undeploying a webapp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBCACHE-1416 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBCACHE-1416 Project: JBoss Cache Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: Clustering Affects Versions: 2.2.0.GA Environment: tomcat6 Reporter: Laurent Mimoun Assignee: Manik Surtani Priority: Critical When undeploying the webapp, here is the errors in the logs : Sep 25, 2008 7:50:36 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war Sep 25, 2008 7:55:33 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources INFO: Undeploying context [] Sep 25, 2008 7:55:33 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war Sep 25, 2008 7:55:34 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load java.io.PrintWriter. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact. java.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1246) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent.<init>(LoggingEvent.java:154) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388) at org.apache.log4j.Category.log(Category.java:853) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.error(Log4JLogger.java:193) at org.jgroups.protocols.MPING.run(MPING.java:362) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Sep 25, 2008 7:55:34 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.apache.log4j.spi.VectorWriter. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact. java.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1246) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent.<init>(LoggingEvent.java:154) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388) at org.apache.log4j.Category.log(Category.java:853) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.error(Log4JLogger.java:193) at org.jgroups.protocols.MPING.run(MPING.java:362) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Sep 25, 2008 7:55:34 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.apache.log4j.spi.VectorWriter. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact. java.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1246) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent.<init>(LoggingEvent.java:154) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388) at org.apache.log4j.Category.log(Category.java:853) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.error(Log4JLogger.java:193) at org.jgroups.protocols.Discovery$PingSenderTask$1.run(Discovery.java:389) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:181) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:205) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Sep 25, 2008 7:55:36 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load org.apache.log4j.spi.VectorWriter. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact. After a closer analysis, the reason is quite simple, in the destroy method of the servlet of my webapp, the method Cache#stop is called but this method doesn't wait that the jgroups thread to finish. So the destroy method returns but there are still jgroups thread in the jvm. These threads sometimes use the log4j api (that is in the war too) to log message but the classloader of the webapp is no more avalaible to load the log4j classes because the webapp has been undeployed, that's why an "could not load class ...log4j" happens. To fix the problem, I think the lifecycle methods of jboss cache must be blocking is the case of using jgroups threads. This way the jboss cache and log4j will be able to be packaged in a single war file that is very a good thing in terms of maintenance developpement and so on. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira