Tomcat Memory leak (Some old war already in memory)

Question

The following web applications were stopped (reloaded, undeployed), but their classes from previous runs are still loaded in memory, thus causing a memory leak

its shows number of war files are still in memory.,Is there any option so that we can delete it?

Answer 1

Just add this dependency classloader-leak-prevention.jar in your build path. It will resolved your problem. If you are using maven project then just add this dependency.

<!-- For Classloader leak protection -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>se.jiderhamn</groupId>
        <artifactId>classloader-leak-prevention</artifactId>
        <version>1.10.0</version>
    </dependency>