[jira] Resolved: (AXIS2-4218) Calling a remote web service from Axis2 generated stub allocates a handle that does not get released

["Andreas Veithen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4218?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andreas Veithen resolved AXIS2-4218.
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    Resolution: Invalid

Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have asked the question :-)

This is how I figured this out: The only thing that a Java process would ever want to get from the registry location "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" are the proxy settings configured in Windows/Explorer, so I tried to find out which component would be responsible for doing this. Since you traced the problem down to httpClient.executeMethod, the only candidates were commons-httpclient and the JRE. Actually commons-httpclient has some code to access the registry, but it is only in the "contrib" section and not part of the distribution, so this left only the JRE as a suspect. After searching a bit, I stumbled over a page that explains that Java 5 supports retrieving the proxy settings from the registry (in previous versions this was only supported inside applets) and that this is enabled by the system property I asked you to check.

Conclusion: you should switch that feature off and submit a bug report to the JRE vendor.

> Calling a remote web service from Axis2 generated stub allocates a handle that does not get released
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>                 Key: AXIS2-4218
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4218
>             Project: Axis 2.0 (Axis2)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: transports
>    Affects Versions: 1.5, 1.4.1, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2
>         Environment: WIndows XP, Java 1.6_7 (and higher). Quad-core Intel system with 4Gb memory
>            Reporter: Dennis Urech
>            Priority: Blocker
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> When I make a call to an Axis2 generated stub to access a remote web service, several Windows handles are allocated (approximately 5).  All but 1 of these is released.  The one that remains (and is not released) is a handle to a Registry Key "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings".  I have traced it down the allocation of all the handles to the call to the httpClient.executeMethod(config, method); in AbstractHTTPSender (line 542).
> We call this web service every 5 seconds and therefore my code is leaking about 700 of these handles every hour.  After about a 3 days we have to kill our applications since it has consumed too many handles.

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