Hi Chris,
change looks good to me.
just to clarify, the ClassNotFoundException in this instance is due to
the migration of
sun.misc.GC to sun.rmi.transport.GC.
from a more general scope,
the change to the latter is to relieve JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener
of the need to
perform reflective access on this GC class, and hence mitigates any
potential memory leak JDK-8157570
posed in the Daemon thread of sun.rmi.transport.GC
regards
Mark
On 26/07/2016 16:24, Chris Hegarty wrote:
The GC.Daemon thread has no need of any user defined class loader,
so should set its context class loader to null before starting, so as to
not inadvertently retain a reference to the creating thread’s context
class loader.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8160513/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160513
-Chris.
P.S. I added a detailed comment the JIRA issue, for those wondering
why Tomcat is running into this.
