CDI enabled deployments hang in sun annotation libraries

Solution Unverified - Updated

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x
  • CDI

Issue

  • We have multiple CDI enabled applications. Their deployment sometimes deadlocks in sun annotation libaries, for example:
"MSC service thread 1-38":
 	at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3090)
 	- waiting to lock <0x00000007054dfba8> (a java.lang.Class for javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped)
 	at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:3050)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.<init>(AnnotationType.java:131)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.getInstance(AnnotationType.java:84)
 	- locked <0x000000070253d288> (a java.lang.Class for sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:220)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:87)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70)
 	at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3093)
 	- locked <0x0000000708c5ef70>
 	at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3073)
 	at org.jboss.weld.introspector.jlr.WeldClassImpl.of(WeldClassImpl.java:126)
 	at org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformTypeToWeldClass.load(ClassTransformer.java:60)
 	at org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformTypeToWeldClass.load(ClassTransformer.java:51)
        . . . . 
 "MSC service thread 1-17":
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType.getInstance(AnnotationType.java:81)
 	- waiting to lock <0x000000070253d288> (a java.lang.Class for sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:220)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:87)
 	at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70)
 	at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3093)
 	- locked <0x00000007054dfba8> (a java.lang.Class for javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped)
 	at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3073)
 	at org.jboss.weld.introspector.jlr.WeldAnnotationImpl.create(WeldAnnotationImpl.java:57)
 	at org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformClassToWeldAnnotation.load(ClassTransformer.java:74)
 	at org.jboss.weld.resources.ClassTransformer$TransformClassToWeldAnnotation.load(ClassTransformer.java:65)

Resolution

  • Update your JDK to the latest

Root Cause

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