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However there are 38 * some rare cases where the WeakHashtable approach does not work; in these 39 * situations specifying this class as a listener for the web application will 40 * ensure that all references held by commons-logging are fully released. 41 * <p> 42 * To use this class, configure the webapp deployment descriptor to call 43 * this class on webapp undeploy; the contextDestroyed method will tell 44 * every accessible LogFactory class that the entry in its map for the 45 * current webapp's context class loader should be cleared. 46 * 47 * @since 1.1 48 */ 49 public class ServletContextCleaner implements ServletContextListener { 50 51 private static final Class<?>[] RELEASE_SIGNATURE = { ClassLoader.class }; 52 53 /** 54 * Constructs a new instance. 55 */ 56 public ServletContextCleaner() { 57 // empty 58 } 59 60 /** 61 * Invoked when a webapp is undeployed, this tells the LogFactory 62 * class to release any logging information related to the current 63 * contextClassloader. 64 */ 65 @Override 66 public void contextDestroyed(final ServletContextEvent sce) { 67 final ClassLoader tccl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); 68 69 final Object[] params = new Object[1]; 70 params[0] = tccl; 71 72 // Walk up the tree of class loaders, finding all the available 73 // LogFactory classes and releasing any objects associated with 74 // the tccl (ie the webapp). 75 // 76 // When there is only one LogFactory in the classpath, and it 77 // is within the webapp being undeployed then there is no problem; 78 // garbage collection works fine. 79 // 80 // When there are multiple LogFactory classes in the classpath but 81 // parent-first classloading is used everywhere, this loop is really 82 // short. The first instance of LogFactory found will 83 // be the highest in the classpath, and then no more will be found. 84 // This is ok, as with this setup this will be the only LogFactory 85 // holding any data associated with the tccl being released. 86 // 87 // When there are multiple LogFactory classes in the classpath and 88 // child-first classloading is used in any class loader, then multiple 89 // LogFactory instances may hold info about this TCCL; whenever the 90 // webapp makes a call into a class loaded via an ancestor class loader 91 // and that class calls LogFactory the tccl gets registered in 92 // the LogFactory instance that is visible from the ancestor 93 // class loader. However the concrete logging library it points 94 // to is expected to have been loaded via the TCCL, so the 95 // underlying logging lib is only initialized/configured once. 96 // These references from ancestor LogFactory classes down to 97 // TCCL class loaders are held via weak references and so should 98 // be released but there are circumstances where they may not. 99 // Walking up the class loader ancestry ladder releasing 100 // the current tccl at each level tree, though, will definitely 101 // clear any problem references. 102 ClassLoader loader = tccl; 103 while (loader != null) { 104 // Load via the current loader. Note that if the class is not accessible 105 // via this loader, but is accessible via some ancestor then that class 106 // will be returned. 107 try { 108 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 109 final Class<LogFactory> logFactoryClass = (Class<LogFactory>) loader.loadClass("org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory"); 110 final Method releaseMethod = logFactoryClass.getMethod("release", RELEASE_SIGNATURE); 111 releaseMethod.invoke(null, params); 112 loader = logFactoryClass.getClassLoader().getParent(); 113 } catch (final ClassNotFoundException ex) { 114 // Neither the current class loader nor any of its ancestors could find 115 // the LogFactory class, so we can stop now. 116 loader = null; 117 } catch (final NoSuchMethodException ex) { 118 // This is not expected; every version of JCL has this method 119 System.err.println("LogFactory instance found which does not support release method!"); 120 loader = null; 121 } catch (final IllegalAccessException ex) { 122 // This is not expected; every ancestor class should be accessible 123 System.err.println("LogFactory instance found which is not accessible!"); 124 loader = null; 125 } catch (final InvocationTargetException ex) { 126 // This is not expected 127 System.err.println("LogFactory instance release method failed!"); 128 loader = null; 129 } 130 } 131 132 // Just to be sure, invoke release on the LogFactory that is visible from 133 // this ServletContextCleaner class too. This should already have been caught 134 // by the above loop but just in case... 135 LogFactory.release(tccl); 136 } 137 138 /** 139 * Invoked when a webapp is deployed. Nothing needs to be done here. 140 */ 141 @Override 142 public void contextInitialized(final ServletContextEvent sce) { 143 // do nothing 144 } 145 }