When is the next release? We are using this jar in a production system and it would be easier for us to download it from a stable release, than applying the patch and getting it reviewed.
Aruna Colm O hEigeartaigh wrote: > > This has already been fixed and will be in the next release: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47779 > > Colm. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ArunaGanesan [mailto:aruna...@gmail.com] > Sent: 12 January 2010 11:07 > To: security-dev@xml.apache.org > Subject: Infinite Loop due to inconsistent hashmap, in > ApacheXMLSecurityJava XMLUtil.class > > > We are using WSS4J, AxisJ and ApacheXMLSecurityJava for contacting a > webservice using SOAP. One of our tool makes parallel SOAP requests to > this > web service. This tool runs on a m/c with 32 virtual processors. > > We were running into a process block a way too often.We did a jstack on > the > process and the process seem to be doing this. > at java.util.HashMap.get(HashMap.java:303) > at > org.apache.xml.security.utils.XMLUtils.createElementInSignatureSpace(Unk > nown > Source) > > Everytime we get the same jstack when the process stops making progress. > > At this point, the process stops and the CPU starts spiking. > > When we looked at the XMLUtils code, we found that the class is not > thread > safe. > There is a hashmap namePrefixes that is used without synchronization. > It > seems that a hashmap without synchronization can cause infinite loop > http://lightbody.net/blog/2005/07/hashmapget_can_cause_an_infini.html > > Since the hash map used in the class is a static object, we guess the > hash > map is left in an inconsistent state. > > Is there any solution available so that we can get rid of this infinite > loop. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Infinite-Loop-due-to-inconsistent-hashmap%2C-in-Ap > acheXMLSecurityJava-XMLUtil.class-tp27125974p27125974.html > Sent from the Apache XML - Security - Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Infinite-Loop-due-to-inconsistent-hashmap%2C-in-ApacheXMLSecurityJava-XMLUtil.class-tp27125974p27127568.html Sent from the Apache XML - Security - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
