How to shutdown Wildfly 8.2.0 AS programatically

[sridharthiyagarajan]

Hello,

I am running the Wildfly AS 8.2.0 AS server in standalone (standalone-full-ha.xml) mode.

I am using the below method to shutdown the wildfly AS 8.2.0 if any exception occurs during the application deployment.

public static void stop() throws MalformedObjectNameException,

        InstanceNotFoundException, MBeanException, ReflectionException {

    MBeanServer mBeanServer = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();

    ObjectName objectName = new ObjectName("jboss.as:management-root=server");

    try {

        mBeanServer.invoke(objectName, "shutdown", new Object[] { false },

                new String[] { boolean.class.getName() });

        _log.debug("In stop() of MBeanStopper - server stopped successfully");

    } catch (InstanceNotFoundException | ReflectionException

            | MBeanException e) {

        _log.error("In stop() of MBeanStopper and the error msg is : " + e);

    }

}

Response is hanging after the calling invoke and the server is not shutting down. I am not getting any exception as well.

Could anyone please help me to resolve the issue.

[jewellgm]

The shutdown command in WildFly was changed to take an additional "timeout" parameter.  This allows for a graceful shutdown.  Try this:

mbeanServer.invoke(objectName, new Object[] {false, 0}, new String[] {boolean.class.getName(), int.class.getName()});

EDIT:  The graceful shutdown was added to WildFly 9.  Unfortunately, my suggestion won't make a difference in WF 8.

[jameslivingston]

I expect the problem will be that the JMX method invocation is synchronous, and waits for it to "complete", but JBoss will be waiting for you initialization method to finish before it shuts down. You probably need to run that in another thread and have the initialization method throw an exception too.

An application trying to make the server shut down during initialization is a bit weird, and there may be more issues you run into.

[sridharthiyagarajan]

Many thanks for the response.. James. I will try shutting down the server in a separate thread.

[sridharthiyagarajan]

Many thanks .. James. Shutting down the server in a separate thread worked fine. Many thanks for Greg for adding valuable inputs on shutting down server.