Profiling an application using AnimatorProxy can give false negatives

[jouni]

If you profile an application which uses the AnimatorProxy component using a server-side only tool (such as JMeter), the memory usage of the app will grow uncontrollably.

This is because the AnimatorProxy depends on messages sent from the client back to the server for it to clean up references to the animations. So in real use, such memory leaks will not be present.

The place in code where the cleanup is done: https://github.com/jounikoivuviita/Animator/blob/master/src/org/vaadin/jouni/animator/AnimatorProxy.java#L155