Broken Pipe Exception and stackoverflow error while making remote ejb invocation

[sketcha]

Hi,

I am using the Jboss AS 7.2.0 Final version and I am facing an issue while making a remote ejb invocation.My ejb returns a Java.util.List Object intermittently the ejb invocation fails with brokoen pipe exception.

Can some one please let me know what is causing the issue here

Here is the stacktrace

org.xnio.BrokenPipeException: Remote side closed the message stream

  at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.OutboundMessage$1.accept(OutboundMessage.java:112) [jboss-remoting-3.2.14.GA.jar:3.2.14.GA]

  at org.xnio.streams.BufferPipeOutputStream.send(BufferPipeOutputStream.java:126) [xnio-api-3.0.7.GA.jar:3.0.7.GA]

  at org.xnio.streams.BufferPipeOutputStream.send(BufferPipeOutputStream.java:114) [xnio-api-3.0.7.GA.jar:3.0.7.GA]

  at org.xnio.streams.BufferPipeOutputStream.getBuffer(BufferPipeOutputStream.java:78) [xnio-api-3.0.7.GA.jar:3.0.7.GA]

  at org.xnio.streams.BufferPipeOutputStream.write(BufferPipeOutputStream.java:96) [xnio-api-3.0.7.GA.jar:3.0.7.GA]

  at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.OutboundMessage.write(OutboundMessage.java:233) [jboss-remoting-3.2.14.GA.jar:3.2.14.GA]

  at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.AbstractMessageHandler$1.write(AbstractMessageHandler.java:216)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.OutputStreamByteOutput.write(OutputStreamByteOutput.java:56) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA.jar:1.3.16.GA]

  at org.jboss.marshalling.UTFUtils.writeUTFBytes(UTFUtils.java:135) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA.jar:1.3.16.GA]

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:275)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1063)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1019)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:998)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:885)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1063)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1019)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:998)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:998)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:885)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1063)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1019)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:998)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:885)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1063)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1019)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:885)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:585)

  at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractObjectOutput.writeObject(AbstractObjectOutput.java:62) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA.jar:1.3.16.GA]

  at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractMarshaller.writeObject(AbstractMarshaller.java:119) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA.jar:1.3.16.GA]

  at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.writeMethodInvocationResponse(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:364)

  at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.access$400(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:69)

  at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler$1.run(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:238)

  at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

  at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) [jboss-threads-2.1.0.Final.jar:2.1.0.Final]

Caused by: an exception which occurred:

  in field instanceName

  in field fabricExtenderRef

  in field owner

  in field neighborEndPointsCol

Also in some cases i am getting stackoverflow error while un marshalling.

[sfcoy]

Is it possible that the java.util.List contains objects that are self-referencing, thereby creating circular references?

[ctomc]

Can you try with newer remoting/marshaller version? I know there ware few fixes / changes in that area.

[sketcha]

Hi All, Thanks for the suggestions. The issue was due to the our data structure whic has too many nested objects. and the issue is mainly observed in 32 bit JRE where the un-marshaling is failing at RiverUnmarshaler.

But i am not able to make out which particular data/Filed in my data structure is causing this issue. Is there any way i could find out which particular object or field is failed to get un-marshaled.