Howdy, >Just one point of clarification here: Tomcat would "stop its own threads", >my servlet-spawned threads would keep executing, but when they terminate >destroy() on the servlet instance is still guaranteed to be called?
No. Destroy() on the servlet is guaranteed to be called when the servlet specification says it should be called. Same thing goes for the servlet context listener's contextDestroyed() event. Tomcat could legally decide to swap out your servlet while some of the threads you spawned from it are still executing. Or someone could recycle the server as part of normal (nightly/weekely/whatever) operating procedure. In that case, destroy() would get called while your threads are still executing, and you'll end up in the bad state described in my previous message. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
