Andy, Thank you for your response, but even though this
behaviour was repeatable and clear to the testers, it
changed when we re-installed ServletExec 2.1. Now we
don't see destroy() being called at all, but that is
what we expected.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bailey
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 12:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: When is destroy() called?
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have noticed that the servlet destroy() method is
> > called every time we close the browser which referenced
> > our servlet (with no other browsers in use).
> >
> Something is causing the servlet to be removed from the server then.
> Either it is because of lack of resources or because you have implemented
> it as SingleThreadModel servlet.
>
> Actually, it may be that the servlet is not loaded at server start and the
> servlet enginedumps it afterwards OR even something as esoteric as the
> servlet engine thinks that the servlet class file has been changed,
> causing
> it to reload (hence causing the destroy method calls)
>
> > I believed the servlet should only be 'destroy'ed (unloaded)
> > when the JVM needed the memory AND the servlet was no
> > longer in use.
>
> > Alternatively, is there ever a case when destroy() is _not_
> > called between the browser closing down and restarting?
> >
> > We are using ServletExec with IIS and JDK1.1.7a. The browser
> > is IE4
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark Foley
> > EDS (Australia)
> > +61-2-62756494
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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