Hi, One of my WebApp pages needs to make a connection to a remote SOAP service that uses a String token to identify unique sessions.
When a user reaches that page, my init action acquires a String token for the SOAP session (via another SOAP object call), and when the user leaves the page (via buttons/links on the page) I can release the token, allowing the remote resource to return to it's pool. If a user leaves my web app some other way (address bar, favorites link etc..) I don't know they've left until the Tomcat/Struts session timeout. My problem is that I need to find someway to always know when the user is done with that page as soon as possible (I have no problem waiting for the session to timeout) so that I can release the remote resource. I've tried implementing the finalize method on my connection object (so that once it goes out of scope, the remote resource is relinquished), however, from what I've read, this is not a guaranteed mechanism like a destructor in C++ or Delphi, and in my simple tests it doesn't seem to have been called at all. Is there someway in Java/Servlets/Struts to have a method called when an object is available for the Garbage Collector? Or some event for when a session timesout? Or some other way I can make sure a method is called on my connection object just before the object is destroyed? This seems more like a basic Java question, rather than a Struts question, but I've not been able to find anything in the searches I've performed so far, and as my object runs within the context of Struts I was hoping that there might be an answer here. Note: I'm not trying to delete or free local objects here, I'm dealing with a remote resource that needs to receive an event telling it I'm done... Thanks. -Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
