WebApplicationContext and OutOfMemory??

[david tanu]

New to spring, My web app appears unstable with notorious OutOfMemory Exception

What I see in the log is like this:

INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext

INFO: Shutting down Log4J

and then OutOfMemoryException

Why did Spring Close the web app context?? is there a kind of timer or listener??

any insight really appreciated

thanks all

[Nathan Pruett]

What are you doing when the OutOfMemoryError is thrown? Anything specific?

The log messages about shutting down Spring and Log4J may be *due* to the OutOfMemoryError being thrown and not what's *causing* it - the error may have killed the application, causing them to fire some kind of shutdown process - before bubbling up to a level which caused it to be printed out.