ServletContextListener not called when shutdown

[javatwo]

I registered a ServletContextListener. When JBoss 5.0.1 starts, the contextInitialized(...) is called as expected.

When running JBoss from Windows Dos prompt, press CTRL+C,  contextDestroyed() is called as expected.

But if running JBoss as windows service, net stop jboss,  contextDestroyed() is not called.

ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed() should be called regardless of the way the JBoss is started.

Is this a bug?

Thanks for help.

Dave

[nickarls]

It sounds like a bug. Have you tried with the 5.1-series?

[javatwo]

it is JBoss 5.1.0.GA. my typo.

[nickarls]

Then I would think it's JIRA time. I assume the shutdown hook should still be the same. Some RedHattian can shoot it down later if they disagree ;-)

[jaikiran]

Any chance you could try this with 6.0.0.Final? The chances of getting this fixed (assuming it's a bug in JBoss AS) in 5.x series of community edition are nil. If it's reproducible in 6.0.0.Final, we can fix it in 6.0.1

[nickarls]

Not reproducable on 6.0 Final, the context destroyed listener is called (Windows 7, 1.6.0_23 64bit)

But on a semi-related note, pressing the stop button in Eclipse JBoss Tools kills off the server just like it would have killed the process, no shutdown is performed...

[javatwo]

I am looking for a callback mechanism when a web application starts and stops. Unfortunately I can not move to JBoss AS 6 because of the tomahawk  bug.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMAHAWK-1562

Is there other nice way to do it except ServletContextListener?

Thanks for help.

Dave

[nickarls]

Well, there is the JSF 2 PreDestroyApplicationEvent or then you could use @PreDestroy on application scoped components etc but unfortuntately EE doesn't have any standard startup/shutdown events yet. Not that those help if the shutdown hooks are never called...

[javatwo]

I tried Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(...), and got the same result.

CTRL + C:  worked.

net stop jboss:  shutdown hook not called.

Is this related to shutdown.bat since it is called for windows service when "net stop jboss" is executed?

Thanks,

Dave

[javatwo]

public class ShutdownHook extends Thread {

@Override

public void run() {

  System.out.println("=============System stopped ==============");

  try {

   File file = new File("d:\\log.txt");

   PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(file));

   writer.println("system stopped " + new Date());

   writer.close();

  } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

   e.printStackTrace();

  }

}

}

[nickarls]

Not so sure about that since I saw a clean shutdown from service on a Windows host on AS 6.

[javatwo]

I like to look at source code to see how JBoss 5.1.0 shutdown works, it is JMX bean.

I checked out 5.1.0 source

svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/tags/JBoss_5_1_0_GA

but I  could not find its source code. Which class takes care of shutdown on server side?

Thanks,
Dave

[nickarls]

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/tags/JBPAPP_5_1_0_Final/server/src/main/org/jboss/Shutdown.java ?

[javatwo]

that is the jmx client. I like to see how the shutdown is handled in server side? does it call hooks? etc.

Thanks for reply. Dave

[nickarls]

org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner is the only place where I can find a shutdown hook that does something reasonable (the other is in PasswordTool) but I don't think that's the "general" one...