Java MapScript issues Servlet

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Did you enable threads support?
Java, and especially servlets, are definitely highly concurrent
environment, so you have to enable thread support when compiling
mapserver and mapscript. One very problematic spot with regards to
threads is in fact the parser of .map files.

Do you attempt to reuse the same mapObj across multiple requests or just
create one and dispose as soon as you are done within a single request?

HTH,
Umberto


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 00:53 -0500, Miller Joseph wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a baffling problem with a nightly build of Java Mapscript
> from about a month ago that I am running on Windows 2000 with Tomcat
> 5.5.4.
>
> The symptom I see is that I can generate the default image but after the
> fourth or fifth time that I pass a new envelope to change the extent of
> the image I get the following error:
>
> The relevant part of the stack trace:
> java.lang.UnknownError: Failed to draw layer named 'world'.
>         at edu.umn.gis.mapscript.mapscriptJNI.mapObj_draw(Native Method)
>         at edu.umn.gis.mapscript.mapObj.draw(mapObj.java:397)
>
> Occasionally I'll get a flex scanner error or tomcat will crash with an
> Exception_Access_Violation memmove error similar to the one referred to
> here:
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=52&messageID=1124599&threa
> dID=286832
>
> All of this happens whether I instatiate new instances of the mapObj and
> set everything to null or if I use the same mapObj throughout and only
> after a few passes, suggesting to me that there is a memory issue
> somewhere.  I can pass on some specific code, but all I am really doing
> is creating new envelopes to store extents and then assigning them to
> the mapObj or extracting the corner coordinates and setting the extent
> with them.
>
> I've been fighting this for a frustrating week now.  Does anyone have
> any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Miller
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