When the application does not clean up the resources, during shutdown, we see WARNINGs in Catalina logs:
"WARNING [Catalina-utility-21] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.clearReferencesThreads The web application [AAA] appears to have started a thread named [BBB] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak. Stack trace of thread:" I wanted to ensure a clean Tomcat shutdown and thinking of an automated test: 1. Stop Tomcat 2. Parse/grep Catalina logs for warnings like above 3. If found, fail the test, if not pass Is there a better/elegant way to achieve this? E.g. using life cycle listeners? Also, the catalina stop <n> option (where a kill is attempted after n seconds are passed) works for all platforms, is my understanding correct? Thanks, Amit
