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Daniel Stoch edited comment on WICKET-625 at 7/31/09 4:51 AM:
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I think the problem still exists in Injector class (in 1.4), so this issue 
should be reopened. There is classToFields field with "FIXME: WICKET-625..." 
comment :), which is used to cache fields to inject for specified class. This 
map is not cleaned up when hot-deploying.
The patch attached above removes this map (cache), but it has not been applied 
and I think it is ok, because removing this cache could drastically degrade 
performance.

My proposal is to use a solution described in this article: 
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jhook/archive/2006/12/class_metadata.html
and define classToFields field as a:
WeakHashMap<ClassLoader, ConcurrentHashMap<String, ClassMetaData>>
where a ClassLoader key will be a class loader of injected object's class. When 
we will use ClassLoader as the key, then the second map can store class names 
instead of Class<?> references.

      was (Author: interface):
    I think the problem still exists in Injector class, so this issue should be 
reopened. There is classToFields field with "FIXME: WICKET-625..." comment :), 
which is used to cache fields to inject for specified class. This map is not 
cleaned up when hot-deploying.
The patch attached above removes this map (cache), but it has not been applied 
and I think it is ok, because removing this cache could drastically degrade 
performance.

My proposal is to use a solution described in this article: 
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jhook/archive/2006/12/class_metadata.html
and define classToFields field as a:
WeakHashMap<ClassLoader, ConcurrentHashMap<String, ClassMetaData>>
where a ClassLoader key will be a class loader of injected object's class. When 
we will use ClassLoader as the key, then the second map can store class names 
instead of Class<?> references.
  
> Wicket doesn't clean up properly when hot-deploying; hangs onto Class 
> references.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WICKET-625
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-625
>             Project: Wicket
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: wicket, wicket-extensions, wicket-spring
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0-beta1
>            Reporter: Alastair Maw
>            Assignee: Alastair Maw
>             Fix For: 1.3.5
>
>         Attachments: WICKET-625.patch
>
>
> When you undeploy a webapp, ideally it should go away and its 
> WebAppClassLoader should be garbage collected. There are various reasons this 
> won't happen, but they essentially split into two problems:
> 1) The App Server has references to classes in the WebAppClassLoader in its 
> own objects (on Tomcat these are typically commons logging statics in 
> StandardContext in catalina, or some of the jakarta code). There's not much 
> you can do about this, short of getting a better app server.
> 2) You hold references to Class objects loaded by your WebAppClassLoader in 
> static fields in other Classes loaded by your WebAppClassLoader.
> Number 2 can be solved by the use of WeakReferences to the Class objects.
> Note that you also need to be careful about classes that have Class 
> references internally, such as java.lang.reflect.Method and Field. You can 
> also hold these items in a WeakReference, but they have the potential to be 
> garbage collected randomly, unlike the underlying Class objects.
> I have some patches that allow me to start up and shut down a Spring-backed 
> Wicket-based app and have the classloader cope properly. They could probably 
> do with some review.

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