Thanks all. I have the threads dying cleanly now.
--- Filip Hanik - Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you can setup context listeners, and when the
> context is stopped you will receive an event and can
> stop your bg thread
>
> Filip
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TK Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:40 PM
> Subject: Killing threads during context restart
>
>
> I have a background thread object in my tomcat
> application that performs some garbage-collection
> like
> functions (i.e., wakes up periodically and does some
> application specific cleanup). I have tomcat
> configured to "restart the context" when I drop new
> class files in the WEB-INF/classes directory.
> Recently I have discovered multiple copies of my
> these
> background threads running simultaneously. Further
> investigation has shown that I get an additional
> copy
> with each context restart.
>
> I guess I don't even know what a context is, but I
> assumed that a context restart would kill off all
> application threads. How am I supposed to get all
> my
> application threads to die when the context
> restarts?
> Checking instance variables don't work since the
> data
> from the old context and the new does not appear to
> be
> shared.
>
> Thanks much,
> Matt
>
>
>
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