> > On 6/4/12 5:29 PM, chad.da...@emc.com wrote: > > I've got a daemon thread that seems to run after the tomcat has > > received the shutdown signal. It's a TimerTask and it appears to fire > > again after the webapp itself has been shutdown. This then seems to > > cause the whole jvm to live on, sometimes for a couple of minutes, > > sometimes much longer. > > > > The timertask blows up with classnotfounds because the webapp > > classloader is gone. Shouldn't it be killed when the webapp is > > killed? > > Tomcat won't stop threads created by your webapp: that's up to you.
Even a daemon thread? I thought a daemon thread wouldn't stop a jvm from exiting . . .
