Class ServletContextCleaner

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    jakarta.servlet.ServletContextListener, java.util.EventListener

    public class ServletContextCleaner
    extends java.lang.Object
    implements jakarta.servlet.ServletContextListener
    This class is capable of receiving notifications about the undeployment of a webapp, and responds by ensuring that commons-logging releases all memory associated with the undeployed webapp.

    In general, we ensurs that logging classes do not hold references that prevent an undeployed webapp's memory from being garbage-collected even when multiple copies of commons-logging are deployed via multiple class loaders (a situation that earlier versions had problems with). However there are some rare cases where the this approach does not work; in these situations specifying this class as a listener for the web application will ensure that all references held by commons-logging are fully released.

    To use this class, configure the webapp deployment descriptor to call this class on webapp undeploy; the contextDestroyed method will tell every accessible LogFactory class that the entry in its map for the current webapp's context class loader should be cleared.

    Since:
    1.4.0
    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      ServletContextCleaner()
      Constructs a new instance.
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      void contextDestroyed​(jakarta.servlet.ServletContextEvent sce)
      Invoked when a webapp is undeployed, this tells the LogFactory class to release any logging information related to the current contextClassloader.
      void contextInitialized​(jakarta.servlet.ServletContextEvent sce)
      Invoked when a webapp is deployed.
      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
    • Method Detail

      • contextDestroyed

        public void contextDestroyed​(jakarta.servlet.ServletContextEvent sce)
        Invoked when a webapp is undeployed, this tells the LogFactory class to release any logging information related to the current contextClassloader.
        Specified by:
        contextDestroyed in interface jakarta.servlet.ServletContextListener
      • contextInitialized

        public void contextInitialized​(jakarta.servlet.ServletContextEvent sce)
        Invoked when a webapp is deployed. Nothing needs to be done here.
        Specified by:
        contextInitialized in interface jakarta.servlet.ServletContextListener