On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Fuad Efendi<f...@efendi.ca> wrote: > Most probably Ctrl-C is graceful for Tomcat, and kill -9 too... Tomcat is > smart... I prefer "/etc/init.d/my_tomcat" wrapper around catalina.sh ("su > tomcat", /var/lock etc...) - ok then, Graceful Shutdown depends on how you > started Tomcat.
*No* application is graceful for "kill -9". The whole point of "kill -9" is that it's uncatchable. -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomblin