Re: Cleaning up threads on GWT application shutdown
Jason and jhulford, Thanks for your advice. I checked into ServletContextListener and it looks like it should work fine. I'm about to give it a try. Thanks. --Jim-- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
Re: Cleaning up threads on GWT application shutdown
Technically, the "proper" way according to the specs is to not utilize background threads. Of course, since nobody actually obeys that proclamation, use a ServletContextListener to start your Thread when the servlet context is started and stop the thread when the context is being destroyed. In general, that's the proper way to do any init / teardown work in a web application. On Jun 8, 6:02 pm, jjd wrote: > I have a GWT application that starts an independent thread and leaves > it running for use by multiple GWT sessions. > > It appears that under Tomcat, when I Stop of Undeploy the application, > this thread keeps running. I can't figure out the right way to manage > shutting down the thread when the application is stopped (but tomcat > keeps running). > > I tried adding a ShutdownHook using > Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(), but that doesn't get called > until Tomcat itself is shutdown. > > What is the proper way to manage threads at application shutdown time? > > Thanks, > > --Jim-- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
Re: Cleaning up threads on GWT application shutdown
Hi Jim, Generally I would register a ServletContextListener with the application-server (in your case Tomcat) to start and stop background services. You would register it in your web.xml file: com.company.webapp.MyContextListener Hope this is what you're looking for. //Jason On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:02 AM, jjd wrote: > I have a GWT application that starts an independent thread and leaves > it running for use by multiple GWT sessions. > > It appears that under Tomcat, when I Stop of Undeploy the application, > this thread keeps running. I can't figure out the right way to manage > shutting down the thread when the application is stopped (but tomcat > keeps running). > > I tried adding a ShutdownHook using > Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(), but that doesn't get called > until Tomcat itself is shutdown. > > What is the proper way to manage threads at application shutdown time? > > Thanks, > > --Jim-- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
