[jboss-dev] Possible blocker with jboss-cl 2.2.0.Alpha1 [WAS]: Hudson Jobs Hanging

[Ales Justin]

To put this on jboss-dev. 
(as Brian is probably reading emails in chronological order :-))

The CL 2.2.0.Alpha2 was just tagged. ;-)

On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> On 02/09/2010 04:50 AM, Adrian Brock wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:02 -0600, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
>> There is however a change in behaviour since jboss-4.2.x in that
>> you could always load java.lang.* classes even when the classloader
>> was shutdown.
>> 
>> This was because of a shortcut in the old UCL classloader:
>> http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/branches/Branch_4_2/jmx/src/main/org/jboss/mx/loading/RepositoryClassLoader.java?r1=60321&r2=63960 to workaround this problem:
>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-4536
>> which doesn't exist with the new classloader when correctly configured.
>> 
>> I can restore the 4.2.x behaviour, but I don't think it
>> is the real problem?
>> 
>> In both examples on JBAS-7688, it would still fail if it tried to
>> load a common/lib class at that point, e.g. javax.ejb.*
>> or any other class not in the classloader that is shutdown.
> 
> Good point. Still, https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBCL-145 seems useful, since a lot of responses only involve JDK classes.
> 
> I don't see any reason to not use jboss-cl 2.2.x in M2; the clean shutdown behavior the ejbthree1116 is testing doesn't work, which isn't the fault of jboss-cl.
> 
> It would be nice though to have a jboss-cl 2.2.0.Alpha2 w/ the JBCL-145 fix to reduce the probability of this kind of failure.
> 
> Thanks, everyone, for digging into this.