"James Harig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/07/2005 12:50:06 PM:
> >> > >> To facilitate these items, you will need some method of informing > >> your webapplication that the server is going to be shutdown. One > >> way to do this would be to set a flag in the application context; > >> another way is to create a lock file; yet another way is to set a > >> flag in a database. > > >Could you not do this via a ServletContextListener..? > > No, I don't believe that would work. The ServletContextListener. > contextInitialized(..) method would be invoked as part of the web > app context being shut down; but there is no way to stop the > shutdown process once it starts. > The API for contextDestroyed says "Notification that the servlet context is about to be shut down. ". Going by the "about to be" I would have thought the contextDestroyed method would be executed first? Geeta
