Memory Leak in WSDLManagerImpl - SchemaCacheMap
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                 Key: CXF-1621
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-1621
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
    Affects Versions: 2.0.6, 2.1
            Reporter: Bharath Ganesh
            Assignee: Bharath Ganesh


The schemaCacheMap in WSDLManagerImpl has a weak key - WSDLDefinition and value 
ServiceSchemaInfo. A key,value pair is inserted into this map while building a 
service. The entry is never explicitly removed from this map. Since the map is 
a WeakHashMap, it is assumed that when the key WSDLDefinition is weakly 
referenced, the entry would be removed from the map. But it is seen that the 
value ServiceSchemaInfo(the value) holds on to a SchemaInfo which in turn holds 
on to the ServiceInfo, which holds the WSDLDefinition through the 
AbstractPropertiesHolder.
This would mean that the value of the CacheMap always strongly refers to the 
key, which would mean the entry would never be removed from the map.
"The value objects in a WeakHashMap are held by ordinary strong references. 
Thus care should be taken to ensure that value objects do not strongly refer to 
their own keys, either directly or indirectly, since that will prevent the keys 
from being discarded"

This would mean ServiceInfo, OperationInfo, BindingInfo, WSDLDefinition would 
all stay in the VM even after the endpoint is stopped.


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