WAR == single classloader was: Benefits of activeReferenceQueue

[Florian Weimer]

On 08/01/2014 06:39 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
> Dne Út 29. července 2014 14:13:25, Florian Weimer napsal(a):
>> On 07/29/2014 10:05 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
>>> Plus, because there is a single classloader which loads all the classes
>>> from a WAR, by keeping the activerReferenceQueue thread alive and holding
>>> reference to the queue, we hold reference to its class and the
>>> classloader and thus all classes referenced by it.
>>>
>>> And this memory leak accumulates with every re-deploy.
>>
>> Could you interrupt the thread when URLClassLoader#close() is called?
>
> Hello Florian,
> I am not sure how to hook into URLClassLoader#close? It is the container who
> creates the classloader, not my library and I don't see any way to add a
> "listener" to the close method (without a reflection).

Wouldn't it be the job of the container to provide such notification 
just before unloading the module?

I wonder if it is possible to fake such notification with finalization 
which is triggered after class unloading, but it seems this needs 
separate class loaders and will likely be rather brittle.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security