CXFBusImpl never removed from ThreadLocal, generates permgen out of memory error after some redeployments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: CXF-2164 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-2164 Project: CXF Issue Type: Bug Components: Bus Affects Versions: 2.1.4 Reporter: Francois Masurel I've found this message on a mailing list recently, and it doesn't seem to have been resolved as we have the same problem with version 2.1.4 of CXF on one of our webapp : Hello CXF users, I've been working on figuring out why our JBoss servers keep going down with permgen out of memory exceptions when we redeploy our war files. To do this I had been using a profiler to inspect the WebAppClassloader to find out what was keeping it from being garbage collected. One such culprit was the class org.apache.cxf.BusFactory The BusFactory has a ThreadLocal in which it stores a copy of CXFBusImpl. However, this isn't getting cleaned up properly when the war is undeployed. I noticed that CXFBusImpl has a shutdown method that calls BusFactory.setDefaultBus(null) which in turn sets the value stored in the ThreadLocal to null. However, this doesn't seem to be getting called. The way we are using CXF from spring is with the following WEB-INF/services.xml file in our war: <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:amq="http://activemq.org/config/1.0" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws" xmlns:http-conf="http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd http://activemq.org/config/1.0 http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core-5.0.0.xsd" default-autowire="byType"> <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" /> <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml" /> <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" /> <jaxws:endpoint id="helloService" implementor="#helloSvc" address="/HelloService" /> </beans> I'm not really sure why this Bus.shutdown() isn't getting called or even who is responsible for calling it. I tried doing something along the lines of: WebApplicationContext webContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(context); if (webContext.containsBean("cxf")) { CXFBusImpl cxfBus = (CXFBusImpl) webContext.getBean("cxf"); cxfBus.shutdown(true); } But that didn't work. What I eventually ended up doing was to have the following hack in the shutdown sequence of our webapp: Field field = org.apache.cxf.BussFactory.class.getDeclaredField("localBus"); field.setAccessible(true); ThreadLocal<?> localBus = (ThreadLocal<?>) field.get(null); localBus.remove(); This did work but obviously it is a bit of an ugly hack. Is there something that needs to be included in our service.xml file to tell spring how to cleanup CXF? Is this maybe a bug in CXF that the CXFBusImpl.shutdown(Boolean) just isn't getting called at all or maybe that in BusFactory.setThreadDefaultBus(Bus) that there should be some check such as: if (bus == null) { localBus.remove(); } else { localBus.set(bus); } Or maybe some combination of all of these. I'm reasonably new to CXF, Spring, and all this stuff so I apologize ahead of time if there is some obvious solution that I just didn't come across but I've been trying to scour the CXF and Spring documentation for some idea of the correct way to do this and why BusFactory is keeping its ThreadLocal but I can't figure it out. Thanks! Ben Dean Software Engineer Ontario Systems, LLC -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.