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Status Submitted
Workspace WebSphere Liberty
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2026

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-location optimization. As observed in a support case, with <executor maxThreads="N" /> (required to limit native memory usage), there is a risk of a deadlock, when, for example, N concurrent HTTP requests each executing the remote EJB cause the thread pool to deadlock waiting for the EJBs to execute on Default Executor which is exhausted (if there's an EJB call timeout, it could still re-deadlock or livelock if there's a lot of queued HTTP work). The common guidance is to change the application to use a local instead and configure classloading to support such use: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/core?topic=deal-using-enterprise-javabeans-applications-that-call-local-ejb-components-in-another-application

Although it's optimally performant to use local interfaces instead of remote if all calls are expected to be local, this can be a significant application development effort which can affect migration efforts to WebSphere traditional (which does support co-location optimization). If the Yoko ORB supported the co-location optimization, then that would avoid this deadlock potential and generally improve performance by avoiding the extra thread creation.

Idea priority High