[Soaplab2-dev] AppLab is now more stable

[Mahmut U. <ul...@eb...>]

Hi,

I just wanted to say that "Too many open files" problem and most of the
important memory leaks in AppLab has been fixed.

The leaks were generally due to unnecessary references to some important
objects such as input objects or the worker thread objects. Also there
was a Java File object referenced by one of the frequently used classes
(embl.ebi.AppLabServer.Data). Now we use an "isFile" attribute in this
class and open new Files only when it is necessary and closing it
afterwards.

The modifications has been checked in to EBI CVS Server
cvsebi.ebi.ac.uk, repository path /ebi/cvs/public, module AppLab-dev.

Eclipse profiling tool was very useful in finding the memory leaks,
especially its ability to show references to individual objects.

Regards,
Mahmut