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Cris,

On 9/20/16 12:06 PM, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote:
> Around 9/6/16 Chris Schultz replied to the "WAR isolation
> lifecycle" thread with:
> 
>> There are some libraries that don't shut down well, or the
>> applications that use them don't properly shut them down. The
>> solution is to either fix the library (ask them!), or use
>> Tomcat's "leak prevention listener" to pre-load those classes
>> that represent a problem.
>> 
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/listeners.html#JRE_Mem
ory_Leak_Prevention_Listener_-_org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPre
ventionListener
>>
>>
>> 
You want to read about the "classesToInitialize" attribute.
> 
> Having recently dealt with some memory leaks, I was curious and
> read through.  Great!  This might help in future struggles.
> However, being still somewhat new to this, I was unable to
> determine how to invoke the classesToInitialize parameter inside
> the server.xml from the documentation page.  Googling around led to
> this:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11872316/tomcat-guice-jdbc-memory-l
eak#19027873
>
>  The critical part is:
> 
>> In tomcat/conf/server.xml, modify (inside the Server element): 
>> <Listener
>> className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener"
>> />
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> <Listener
>> className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener"
>>
>> 
classesToInitialize="com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver" />
> 
> Aha, that's the XML syntax!  Why didn't I know that?
> 
> So, could we add a small example server.xml snippet to the
> JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener documentation to make it clear to
> newbies how to add the classesToInitialize option?  Something
> like:
> 
> <Listener
> className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener"
>
> 
classesToInitialize="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTimeoutThreadPerVM" />

Care to make a formal documentation patch? You'll get your name in the
changelog :)

> Is this also valid?
> 
> <Listener
> className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener">
>
> 
<classesToInitialize>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTimeoutThreadPerVM</classe
sToInitialize>
> </Listener>

I'm not sure but I don't think so. It all depends upon how Tomcat has
configured the digester, since it treats child elements and element
attributes differently.

> Would examples look better after the Attribute/Description table as
> a separate section or embedded directly within the table?

Definitely outside of the table IMO.

- -chris
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