> When you stop the parent Component, it stops all the child connectors.
Sounds like a simple, nice, soft stop for me, but... What I am thinking is to respond to URI request like PUT .../shutdown (limit to localhost request and run through authentication guard as all the other requests). How in the resource do I get to parent component when I started Restlet HTTP server using main in my application as follows, or am I doing something silly here? : public static void main(String[] args) { try { Component component = new Component(); component.getServers().add(Protocol.HTTP, 8182); component.getDefaultHost().attach(new MyApplication(component.getContext())); component.start(); ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1025076