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However there are some rare cases 034 * where the this approach does not work; in these situations specifying this class as a listener for the web application will ensure that all 035 * references held by commons-logging are fully released. 036 * </p> 037 * <p> 038 * To use this class, configure the webapp deployment descriptor to call this class on webapp undeploy; the contextDestroyed method will tell every accessible 039 * LogFactory class that the entry in its map for the current webapp's context class loader should be cleared. 040 * </p> 041 * 042 * @since 1.4.0 043 */ 044public class ServletContextCleaner implements ServletContextListener { 045 046 private static final Class<?>[] RELEASE_SIGNATURE = { ClassLoader.class }; 047 048 /** 049 * Constructs a new instance. 050 */ 051 public ServletContextCleaner() { 052 // empty 053 } 054 055 /** 056 * Invoked when a webapp is undeployed, this tells the LogFactory class to release any logging information related to the current contextClassloader. 057 */ 058 @Override 059 public void contextDestroyed(final ServletContextEvent sce) { 060 final ClassLoader tccl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); 061 final Object[] params = new Object[1]; 062 params[0] = tccl; 063 // Walk up the tree of class loaders, finding all the available 064 // LogFactory classes and releasing any objects associated with 065 // the tccl (ie the webapp). 066 // 067 // When there is only one LogFactory in the classpath, and it 068 // is within the webapp being undeployed then there is no problem; 069 // garbage collection works fine. 070 // 071 // When there are multiple LogFactory classes in the classpath but 072 // parent-first classloading is used everywhere, this loop is really 073 // short. The first instance of LogFactory found will 074 // be the highest in the classpath, and then no more will be found. 075 // This is ok, as with this setup this will be the only LogFactory 076 // holding any data associated with the tccl being released. 077 // 078 // When there are multiple LogFactory classes in the classpath and 079 // child-first classloading is used in any class loader, then multiple 080 // LogFactory instances may hold info about this TCCL; whenever the 081 // webapp makes a call into a class loaded via an ancestor class loader 082 // and that class calls LogFactory the tccl gets registered in 083 // the LogFactory instance that is visible from the ancestor 084 // class loader. However the concrete logging library it points 085 // to is expected to have been loaded via the TCCL, so the7 086 // underlying logging lib is only initialized/configured once. 087 // These references from ancestor LogFactory classes down to 088 // TCCL class loaders are held via weak references and so should 089 // be released but there are circumstances where they may not. 090 // Walking up the class loader ancestry ladder releasing 091 // the current tccl at each level tree, though, will definitely 092 // clear any problem references. 093 ClassLoader loader = tccl; 094 while (loader != null) { 095 // Load via the current loader. Note that if the class is not accessible 096 // via this loader, but is accessible via some ancestor then that class 097 // will be returned. 098 try { 099 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 100 final Class<LogFactory> logFactoryClass = (Class<LogFactory>) loader.loadClass("org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory"); 101 final Method releaseMethod = logFactoryClass.getMethod("release", RELEASE_SIGNATURE); 102 releaseMethod.invoke(null, params); 103 loader = logFactoryClass.getClassLoader().getParent(); 104 } catch (final ClassNotFoundException ex) { 105 // Neither the current class loader nor any of its ancestors could find 106 // the LogFactory class, so we can stop now. 107 loader = null; 108 } catch (final NoSuchMethodException ex) { 109 // This is not expected; every version of JCL has this method 110 System.err.println("LogFactory instance found which does not support release method!"); 111 loader = null; 112 } catch (final IllegalAccessException ex) { 113 // This is not expected; every ancestor class should be accessible 114 System.err.println("LogFactory instance found which is not accessible!"); 115 loader = null; 116 } catch (final InvocationTargetException ex) { 117 // This is not expected 118 System.err.println("LogFactory instance release method failed!"); 119 loader = null; 120 } 121 } 122 // Just to be sure, invoke release on the LogFactory that is visible from 123 // this ServletContextCleaner class too. This should already have been caught 124 // by the above loop but just in case... 125 LogFactory.release(tccl); 126 } 127 128 /** 129 * Invoked when a webapp is deployed. Nothing needs to be done here. 130 */ 131 @Override 132 public void contextInitialized(final ServletContextEvent sce) { 133 // do nothing 134 } 135}