Description Andrei Pozolotin 2014-06-21 08:10:38 EDT

despite an attempt here
https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/blob/master/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/BatchingProgressMonitor.java#L58

JGit-AlarmQueue still keeps the application classloader pinned via
* Thread.inheritedAccessControlContext
* Thread.inheritableThreadLocals
* Thread.contextClassLoader

my current workaround is explicit "stop" before application unload,
this does release the class loader:

	public static void stop() throws Exception {
		try {

			final Field field = BatchingProgressMonitor.class
					.getDeclaredField("alarmQueue");

			field.setAccessible(true);

			final ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor alarmQueue = (ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor) field
					.get(null);

			alarmQueue.shutdownNow();

		} catch (final Throwable e) {
			logger.error("Failed to stop.", e);
		}
	}


a better solution?
I would rather have a public Git.shutdown()
to release all threads, NLS, etc. rather the trying to outsmart 
the vm/classloader gc logic