RFR [9] 8160513: ClassNotFoundException sun.misc.GC when running Tomcat 9 with JDK 9

[Chris Hegarty]

On 27/07/16 16:13, Mark Sheppard wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> change looks good to me.

Thanks for looking at this Mark.

> just to clarify, the ClassNotFoundException in this instance is due to
> the migration of
> sun.misc.GC to sun.rmi.transport.GC.

Correct.

> from a more general scope,
> the change to the latter is to relieve JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener
> of the need to
> perform reflective access on this GC class, and  hence mitigates any
> potential memory leak JDK-8157570
> posed in the Daemon thread of sun.rmi.transport.GC

Correct.  Once this change is in JDK 9 I will contact Tomcat and
propose that they remove the reflective access to sun.misc.GC, in
their JDK 9 trunk.

-Chris.

> regards
> Mark
>
>
> On 26/07/2016 16:24, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> The GC.Daemon thread has no need of any user defined class loader,
>> so should set its context class loader to null before starting, so as to
>> not inadvertently retain a reference to the creating thread’s context
>> class loader.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8160513/
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160513
>>
>> -Chris.
>>
>> P.S. I added a detailed comment the JIRA issue, for those wondering
>> why Tomcat is running into this.
>