Re: Clean shutdown in Tomcat

[Thierry Boileau]

Hello Hannes, from a Restlet point of view, the "stop" method is the dedicated "spot" to take care of such considerations. There is no need to override the "ServerServlet#destroy" method, unless you need so due to the fact that you override the ServerServlet class. I would like to add also that by default the "ServerServlet#destroy" method invokes the "stop" method of your application. Best regards, Thierry Boileau -- Restlet ~ Core developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com I'm running Restlets in Tomcat and need a way to cleanly shutdown a repository - is there a shutdown hook or a destroy() method I could use? What's common practice for doing this? I found now two possibilities: - Creating a class derived from ServerServlet, overriding destroy(), and invoking the new class from Tomcat, instead of ServerServlet. - Overriding stop() from the Application class. Overriding seems to be simpler, as it does not require a new class. What is the preferred method for doing some cleanups before shutting down in a container? Do both approaches have the same effect, or is there a difference? Thanks, Hannes