huge memory amount bound by sleeping standard tags

Hy,

I was searching a memory leak in our application. A profiler told me 
that  there are standard tags (probably sleeping in a pool) that are 
holding the references to our objects.  Especially the items-variable in 
the forEach-tag seems to be very greedy in our application.

When I modified the standard-tag code (call a Tag.release() within every 
TryCatchFinally.doFinally()), our objects were garbage-collected as desired.

The javadoc of javax.servlet.jsp..Tag tells, that the call of release() 
is NOT guaranteed for every usage of a Tag. So everything seems to be 
ok, no bug.

But does anybody have good advice how I could reduce the amount of bound 
memory?


Greetings,

Thomas