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

[Brian Stansberry]

LOL. Thanks; I thought this had been shifted to jboss-dev.

On 02/09/2010 09:20 AM, Ales Justin wrote:
> 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.
>


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