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Norman Richards commented on JBSEAM-3932:
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Thanks. I plan to put a fix in for this shortly, but I'm still debating the best
solution. If any of the other leaks are Seam-related, please open JIRAs and I will make
sure they get addressed before the next release.
org.jboss.el.util.ReflectionUtil/org.jboss.el.util.ReferenceCache
causes thread and memory leak
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Key: JBSEAM-3932
URL:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3932
Project: Seam
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 2.1.1.GA
Environment: Tomcat w/ Seam on Windows
Reporter: Alexander Schwartz
Assignee: Norman Richards
Fix For: 2.1.2.CR1
Attachments: reference.patch
org.jboss.el.util.ReflectionUtil (from jboss-el) uses a
private static ReferenceCache methodCache
and this ReferenceCache is leaking a thread that is used for cleanup. You can't call
a cleanup method from the outside.
Every redeployment of an application will leak one thread due to this bug. And it causes
a memory leak as the web application class loader can't be unloaded due to this bug.
The pom.xml of jboss-el states "JBoss EL is a extended EL implementation,
distributed with Seam", therefore I report this bug against Seam.
If this thread should really be necessary, it should have a proper name.
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