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I'd definitely like to know the answer to this, too. Replying to bump the topic. - -chris Jochen Wuttke wrote: > Hi, > > for my research project I've been doing some ApsectJ magic with Tomcat > and deployed WebApps. Among other things I'm interested in detecting at > runtime when TagHandlers instantiated in a HttpServlet go out of scope. > Since that can't be done with AspectJ I was tracking garbage collection > to see when the objects get removed. To be sure that that made some > sense I looked at where the servlet code instantiates the TagHandlers, > and since they are created and used as local variables, I was expecting > them to be collected after the servlet finishes processing. > Unfortunately, a few experiments showed that that is not the case. > After delving into the details of the servlet code generated for JSP > pages I discovered that the methods instantiating TagHandlers also store > them in TagHandlerPools using #reuse(). > I'm doing my experiments with a demo application for Java Server Faces, > and all JSF tag handler implement > javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.JspIdConsumer. The spec says that handler > implementing that interface may not be reused, so I was wondering if > this is a potential bug or if I'm missing some intricate detail of how > things work. > > Thanks, > Jochen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj8ivkACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBVxgCeMV3deLI4A+CtT+WY26+DLV3/ K7IAnR0nNeb29DYPoTf6V6M88HVeeojm =rlNa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]