Shutdown JBoss gracefully when it fails to deploy a critical

[poorabshah]

Question:
Is it possible to shutdown JBoss gracefully when it fails to deploy a critical service?

I override the 'startService()' method where I read some config files, initialize some thread pools, etc. In case I get an exception at this stage, I want to ensure that JBoss does not start up.

I can do a System.exit(0) in the catch blocks - but there has to be a better way wherein a particular type of MBeanException hints the JBoss deployer, to undeploy other services/EJBs & do a graceful shutdown. This way I don't effect other processes - that were deployed correctly & were processing requests when the JVM was halted!

I can also set alerts that scrape thru the logs & make sure there are none, before the server takes traffic.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[tmuldoon]

Unfortunately, I have the very same question. If only someone had replied ...

[dimitris]

Maybe catch the exception yourself in the start() method of your service and call exit with an error code on the jboss.system:type=Server mbean.

[tmuldoon]

Dmitris, thanks for your reply. It's appreciated. That said, I tried the following within my MBean's startService method to no avail (the server did not abort the startup as hoped) ...

try
{
.
.
.
}
catch (MyException e)
{
MBeanServer server = MBeanServerLocator.locateJBoss();
ObjectName target = new ObjectName("jboss.system:type=Server");
server.invoke(target, "shutdown", new Object[0], new String[0]);
}