All, As you may know I am one of the Apache Tomcat committers. The Tomcat project was approached recently[1] to see what, if any, internal APIs Tomcat was using as part of the JDK 9 preparations.
My response was that the only place Tomcat does this is in the memory leak prevention class [2]. I also commented that if the memory leaks could be addressed then we'd have no need to us the internal API. The response from Oracle was a suggestion to bring up these memory leaks on this list. The memory leaks stem from the generally more complex class loader structure present in a JavaEE container than is typically present in a standalone Java app. At this point, I have two questions. 1. Is this community interested in examining these memory leaks further to see what can be done in the JDK to avoid them? 2. If yes, would you prefer a discussion thread for each leak or one thread for all leaks? Personally, I think a thread per leak would be easier to manage but it might make sense just to look at one leak first as there may well be some common themes that emerge which would save us discussing them on each thread. Mark [1] http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/n3n6arf3j7f27zhb [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/core/JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener.java?view=annotate
