The JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener provides work-arounds for known places where the Java Runtime environment uses the context class loader to load a singleton as this will cause a memory leak if a web application class loader happens to be the context class loader at the time. The work-around is to initialise these singletons when this listener starts as Tomcat‘s common class loader is the context class loader at that time. It also provides work-arounds for known issues that can result in locked JAR files.
This listener must only be nested within Server elements.
The following additional attributes are supported by the JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener:
Attribute
Description
appContextProtection
Enables protection so that calls to sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext() triggered by a web application do not result in a memory leak. Note that enabling this protection will trigger a requirement for a graphical environment unless Java is started in head-less mode. The default is false. This protection is disabled if running on Java 8 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 8 onwards.
Enables protection so that calls to java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() triggered by a web application do not result in a memory leak. Defaults to false because an AWT thread is launched. This protection is disabled if running on Java 9 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 9 onwards.
List of comma-separated fully qualified class names to load and initialize during the startup of this Listener. This allows to pre-load classes that are known to provoke classloader leaks if they are loaded during a request processing. Non-JRE classes may be referenced, like oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTimeoutThreadPerVM. The default value is empty, but specific JRE classes are loaded by other leak protection features managed by other attributes of this Listener.
预先通过系统类加载器加载的类，以逗号分隔，这样类就不会有多份了，相当于减少perm区的占用；
代码见上；
driverManagerProtection
The first use of java.sql.DriverManager will trigger the loading of JDBC Driver in the current class loader. The web application level memory leak protection can take care of this in most cases but triggering the loading here has fewer side-effects. The default is true.
数据库驱动的初始化先搞一轮，驱动的实现就不会每一个应用一份，减少对象创建；
代码见上；
gcDaemonProtection
Enables protection so that calls to sun.misc.GC.requestLatency(long) triggered by a web application do not result in a memory leak. Use of RMI is likely to trigger a call to this method. A side effect of enabling this protection is the creation of a thread named "GC Daemon". The protection uses reflection to access internal Sun classes and may generate errors on startup on non-Sun JVMs. The default is true. This protection is disabled if running on Java 9 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 9 onwards.
Enables protection so that the PoolCleaner thread started by com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapPoolManager does not result in a memory leak. The thread is started the first time the LdapPoolManager class is used if the system property com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool.timeout is set to a value greater than 0. Without this protection, if a web application uses this class the PoolCleaner thread will be configured with the thread‘s context class loader set to the web application class loader which in turn will trigger a memory leak on reload. Defaults to true. This protection is disabled if running on Java 9 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 9 onwards.
Enables protection so that usage of the javax.security.auth.login.Configuration class by a web application does not provoke a memory leak. The first access of this class will trigger the initializer that will retain a static reference to the context class loader. The protection loads the class with the system class loader to ensure that the static initializer is not triggered by a web application. Defaults to true. This protection is disabled if running on Java 8 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 8 onwards.
Enables protection so that usage of the deprecated javax.security.auth.Policy class by a web application does not result in a memory leak. The first access of this class will trigger the static initializer that will retain a static reference to the context class loader. The protection calls the getPolicy() method of this class to ensure that the static initializer is not triggered by a web application. Defaults to true.
Note: The underlying leak has been fixed in Java 7 update 51 onwards and Java 8 onwards. This protection is therefor disabled if running on Java 8 onwards.
Enables protection so that any token poller thread initialized by sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.initToken() does not result in a memory leak. The thread is started depending on various conditions as part of the initialization of the Java Cryptography Architecture. Without the protection this can happen during Webapp deployment when the MessageDigest for generating session IDs is initialized. As a result the thread has the Webapp class loader as its thread context class loader. Enabling the protection initializes JCA early during Tomcat startup. Defaults to true. This protection is disabled if running on Java 9 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 9 onwards.
Enables protection so that reading resources from JAR files using java.net.URLConnections does not result in the JAR file being locked. Note that enabling this protection disables caching by default for all resources obtained via java.net.URLConnections. Caching may be re-enabled on a case by case basis as required. Defaults to true.
Enables protection so that parsing XML files within a web application does not result in a memory leak. Note that memory profilers may not display the GC root associated with this leak making it particularly hard to diagnose. Defaults to true. This protection is disabled if running on Java 9 onwards since the leak has been fixed for Java 9 onwards.
