could not acquire lock on a component

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Joe picture Joe · Oct 13, 2010 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

I get this error sometimes on a session scoped component, still haven't figured out what is causing this to fail. Any ideas?

ERROR [Exceptions] handled and logged exception
javax.el.ELException: org.jboss.seam.core.LockTimeoutException: could not acquire lock on @Synchronized component: importUser

Answer

kraftan picture kraftan · Oct 13, 2010

Session scoped components are synchronized by default. That means, Seam takes care that only one request at a time may access such a component. All other requests have to wait until the first is finished. To prevent starvation, the waiting requests have a timeout (see org.jboss.seam.core.SynchronizationInterceptor for the corresponding implementation). When the waiting request does not get access to the component until the timeout is reached, the SynchronizationInterceptor throws a org.jboss.seam.core.LockTimeoutException.

Assuming to requests, A and B, need your importUser component and A is first. If A takes a long time to finish, B will end in the LockTimeoutException. To find the cause of your issue, try to find out how a request to importUser may take longer than the defined timeout.

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