[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (RF-8216) ThreadLocal/Memory leak in ColumnsHandler

ThreadLocal/Memory leak in ColumnsHandler ----------------------------------------- Key: RF-8216 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-8216 Project: RichFaces Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: component-tables, performance Affects Versions: 3.3.1 Reporter: Thomas W Assignee: Alex Kolonitsky Fix For: 3.3.3.CR1 I have found this issue when hunting down memory leaks on hot deployment with tomcat. It prevents the classloader from unload and leaks memory even outside of hot deployment in HTTP worker threads. This is just one example. Looking at how plain and obvious it is, there are probably more issues hiding in other components. There should be test with ideally full code coverage, followed by inspection of the JVM heap for leaks. There is a nice post here on how to perform the latter: http://blogs.sun.com/fkieviet/entry/how_to_fix_the_dreaded The specific culprit I found is the columns tag (ColumnsHandler). I had to add the following in a subclass to prevent the leak: @Override public void apply(FaceletContext ctx, UIComponent parent) throws IOException, FacesException, ELException { super.apply(ctx, parent); // fix memory/classloader leak super.iterationContextLocal.remove(); }