[jira] Resolved: (FELIX-363) Forceable termination of Felix instance leaves global EventDispatcher in non-restartable state

["Rob Walker (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-363?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rob Walker resolved FELIX-363.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Committed a fix which should ensure:

- m_thread is nulled out whenever run() exits regardless of reason

- also checks whether m_thread.isAlive() to handle cases where thread is killed but not detected internally, and m_thread doesn't get nulled out.

> Forceable termination of Felix instance leaves global EventDispatcher in non-restartable state
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>                 Key: FELIX-363
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-363
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Framework
>            Reporter: Rob Walker
>            Assignee: Rob Walker
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> FELIX-314 fixed an issue where internal shutdown of the global EventDispatcher thread left Felx in a state where new instances could not be started within the same VM at a later time.
> It seems in an Applet VM environment using JRE 1.6 and IE7 there is a variation on this case where the Applet VM is forcibly killing VM threads not cleanly terminated by the application itself e.g. a sloppily written Applet  (like ours!) which launched a Felix instance in the start() but didn't shut it down in the stop().
> Such a forceable termination is not tracked or detected, and hence leads to a similar inability to start additional Felix instances as was being seen in FELIX-314

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