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Scott O'Bryan commented on TRINIDAD-2278:
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I think you're right on here Reshmi. However the syncronization is needed for
other reasons. Although the HttpSession itself will not run into threading
issues, that is not to say that the code which uses it won't.
Truth be told, aside from the deadlock issue, this isn't even guaranteed to
work because there is no guarentee the session instance is the same for two
sessions.
In later Trinidad releases, I would say this should be replaced with a lock.
Since session is thread safe, we do not have to worry about any caching issues
from the object, so a simple lock around the code would suffice. For this
branch of Trinidad, I suppose you could syncronize on the tokenCache itself or
create another lock object to syncronize on.
Do keep in mind that 1.0 is no longer maintained, but I do invite you to
provide a patch here that other people can apply to the latest trunk manually.
Thanks for your interest.
> HttpSession inside a synchronized block in the class TokenCache of
> trinidad-impl-1.0.10.jar could cause to deadlock while used with WAS 7
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TRINIDAD-2278
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-2278
> Project: MyFaces Trinidad
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0.10-core
> Reporter: Reshmi Choudhury
>
> Hi,
> We are using trinidad-impl-1.0.10.jar in our product. I see that HttpSession
> is used in a synchronized block in the class TokenCache of
> trinidad-impl-1.0.10.jar. Could you please clarify if this could cause to
> deadlock while used with WAS 7.
> Please find the below code snippet for your quick reference.
> static public TokenCache getTokenCacheFromSession( FacesContext context,
> String cacheName, boolean createIfNeeded, int defaultSize) {
> ExternalContext external = context.getExternalContext();
> Object session = external.getSession(true);
> assert(session != null);
> TokenCache cache;
> // Synchronize on the session object to ensure that
> // we don't ever create two different caches
> synchronized (session)
> {
> cache = (TokenCache) external.getSessionMap().get(cacheName);
> if ((cache == null) && createIfNeeded)
> {
> // Seed the token cache with the session ID (if available)
> int seed = 0;
> if (_USE_SESSION_TO_SEED_ID)
> {
> if (session instanceof HttpSession)
> {
> String id = ((HttpSession) session).getId();
> if (id != null)
> seed = id.hashCode();
> }
> }
> cache = new TokenCache(defaultSize, seed);
> external.getSessionMap().put(cacheName, cache);
> }
> }
> return cache;
> }
> This information is required as IBM informs the developer not to synchronize
> the session or it will cause deadlocks. WAS 7 implements the Servlets 2.5
> specification and manages the thread safety for any modification to the
> session map. Please refer to the URL
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/info/ae/ae/uprs_rsession_manager.html
> for more details. This URL contains this text:
> “Applications cannot synchronize session objects inside of their servlets or
> Java Server Pages because a deadlock with the session manager may occur. The
> deadlock occurs because the session manager does not expect the use of more
> than one locking mechanism”
> Here is an excellent article on this topic, which explains when explicit
> synchronization is needed in the application code and when the servlet
> container's locking mechanism is sufficient:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp09238/index.html
>
> It would be really helpful if we receive the information at the earliest as
> this is priority at our end.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Reshmi
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