DO NOT REPLY [Bug 38579] - Tomcat nulling internal state of objects referenced by static finals

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------- Additional Comments From matt.dev@llmj.com  2006-02-09 05:47 -------
I did some research this evening and found out that, sure enough, Java 5 allows
instance final fields to be overwritten but does NOT allow this for static final
fields.  Therefore my suggestion of simply overwriting the static final
reference will not work.

I made some modifications to the cleanup code in WebappClassLoader.java, which
cause it to only nullify fields of descended-into objects if they refer to
objects of classes which were loaded by 'this' class loader or one of its
children (if it has any.)  I am attaching the modified source file.  Please take
a look at it and see if it still achieves the desired effect with respect to
Tomcat's cleanup process.  I am new to class loader debugging.

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