[Quickfix-developers] FileStore does not close files in Java wrapper

[Yong-Jhen H. <yon...@al...>]

Hi all,

I maintain an application that uses quickfix Java wrapper to connect
to a trading server, that program is expected to run 24 hours per day,
actually, it is implemented as a Windows service.

My problem is, the FileStore objects I use never close the four session
files, hence the program cannot create a new session (and an usable
FileStore object) every morning. After tracing the source, I find it
might be a garbage collection issue, which is similar to bug#192:
http://www.quickfixengine.org/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=192

It is my point of view that depending on garbage collection (i.e,
the finalize() method) to do necessary cleanup is not a good thing.
Currently, I have a patch that do cleanup explicitly. But now the
initiator still don't establish session with the server correctly,
it continuously sends logout message instead.

May anyone have similar usage scenario, or insight with this issue,
give my some suggestion?
My patch is also attached with this mail.

Regards,
yongjhen