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        Key: JS2-17
    Summary: ava.util.ConcurrentModificationException during parallel Portlet rendering
       Type: Bug

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

    Project: Jetspeed 2
 Components: 
             Container
   Versions:
             2.0-dev/cvs

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Ate Douma

    Created: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 5:15 AM
    Updated: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 5:15 AM
Environment: WindowsXP, J2SE1.4.2_03, Tomcat 4.1.29

Description:
I now have encountered this exception multiple times so I dived into it what was going 
on here.

It turns out that the parallel rendering of portlets isn't thread save.
When the rendering of a portlet is dispatched through Tomcat by 
o.a.j.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.invoke Tomcat will create its own 
wrappers around the supplied request and response parameters. While doing that, it 
retrieves the attributes from the request which are stored in a HashMap.
But, as this HashMap is seemingly shared by all portlets (from the base request 
probably) this CAN lead to thread unsave situations with parallel rendering and I've 
encountered this now rather often.

A don't have a clear solution right now but what maybe could help is ensuring that the 
already request wrapper passed on to Tomcat for rendering doesn't fall back on shared 
Maps for its attributes (and parameters probably). So, for each portlet a separate 
wrapped request is needed which has its own HashMap of attributes and parameters. Most 
likely then this won't break anymore.

Warning: I've seen in parts of the request handling code of Catalina (Tomcat 4) that 
it unwraps request objects until it finds the original one created by Catalina itself. 
If that's been done here as well no real protection against this problem can be 
created and the parallel rendering is in trouble.

An example snippet including stacktrace of the exception from jetspeed.log:

2004-04-20 11:32:48,328 [WORKER_13] DEBUG org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.Worker - 
Processing job for window :15
2004-04-20 11:32:48,328 [WORKER_13] DEBUG 
org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.RenderingJob - Rendering OID 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2004-04-20 11:32:48,328 [WORKER_13] ERROR 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker - Failed to 
dispatch.include for Portlet Application: /struts-demo, servlet: /container
java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
        at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:782)
        at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:818)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.Enumerator.nextElement(Enumerator.java:217)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setRequest(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:514)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.<init>(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:125)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.wrapRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:921)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:547)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:498)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.invoke(ServletPortletInvoker.java:208)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.render(ServletPortletInvoker.java:122)
        at 
org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerImpl.renderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.renderPortlet(JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.java:98)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.RenderingJob.run(RenderingJob.java:109)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.Worker.run(Worker.java:142)
2004-04-20 11:32:48,328 [WORKER_13] ERROR 
org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.RenderingJob - Error rendering portlet OID 15
javax.portlet.PortletException: Failed to dispatch.include for Portlet Application: 
/struts-demo, servlet: /container
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.invoke(ServletPortletInvoker.java:215)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.render(ServletPortletInvoker.java:122)
        at 
org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerImpl.renderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.renderPortlet(JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.java:98)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.RenderingJob.run(RenderingJob.java:109)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.Worker.run(Worker.java:142)
Caused by: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
        at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:782)
        at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:818)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.Enumerator.nextElement(Enumerator.java:217)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setRequest(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:514)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.<init>(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:125)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.wrapRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:921)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:547)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:498)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.invoke(ServletPortletInvoker.java:208)
        ... 5 more
Nested Exception is 
java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
        at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:782)
        at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:818)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.Enumerator.nextElement(Enumerator.java:217)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setRequest(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:514)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.<init>(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:125)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.wrapRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:921)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:547)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:498)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.invoke(ServletPortletInvoker.java:208)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.invoker.ServletPortletInvoker.render(ServletPortletInvoker.java:122)
        at 
org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerImpl.renderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.jetspeed.container.JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.renderPortlet(JetspeedPortletContainerWrapper.java:98)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.RenderingJob.run(RenderingJob.java:109)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.Worker.run(Worker.java:142)
2004-04-20 11:32:48,328 [WORKER_13] DEBUG 
org.apache.jetspeed.aggregator.impl.ContentDispatcherImpl - Notifying complete OID 15




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