[AXIS-2862] Circular reference in Deserialization and XMLReader

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: Serialization/Deserialization
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nagaraj
• Created: 10/Oct/11 07:19
• Updated: 10/Oct/11 12:53
• Resolved: 10/Oct/11 07:39

Description

I got out of memory error and when i analysed heap dump, i was getting infinite active references of deserialization and xmlreader.When expand Deserialization context,XMLReader reference is there and when expand XMLReader,Deserialization reference is there.It seems to be circular reference.The sample output of heap dump is given below.

Shallow Heap

Retained Heap

Percentage

org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext @ 0x505dbbc8 | 88 | 988,356,416 | 60.92%

oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader @ 0x505dc5f8	128	988,272,872	60.92%
	org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext @ 0x504ce7d8	88	988,263,992	60.92%
		oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader @ 0x505385b0	128	988,190,680	60.91%
			org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext @ 0x89592c00	88	988,181,800	60.91%
				oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader @ 0x89592e00	128	988,067,936	60.91%
					org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext @ 0x50799858	88	988,059,056	60.91%
						oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader @ 0x5079d0e8	128	987,975,512	60.90%
							org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext @ 0x505e23d8	88	987,966,632	60.90%
								oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader @ 0x505e1c08	128	987,892,528	60.90%

Please provide some solution for this.