On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jindong Li wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:53:52 -0500 > From: Jindong Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Tomcat Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Shutdown.sh does not work when long lasting operations, > such as SQL Queries, are still active! > > I think that's what we're experiencing here with Tomcat4.0.5...we have been > using TC401 and the shutdown is instant...but I think they have changed the > way TC is shutting down now...TC will gracefully shutdown i.e. waiting for > all threads finish and then exit... > > If you want...you can try TC401, see if you still experience the delay... > > I posted a similar message before and haven't got any response from the > community yet...:-( > It is OK for web applications to start threads -- as long as the web application cleans up after itself when the application is shut down (the easiest way to detect that is to create a ServletContextListener and wait for the contextDestroyed() method of your listener to be called). The JVM running Tomcat shuts down when all non-daemon threads have been killed. Tomcat properly cleans up all the threads that *it* creates -- it is up to your application to do the same. > Jindong. > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
