Thanks for all the responses.
I have another question about shutdown. My app has several asynchronous threads which it spins off. I need to get them shut down cleanly. These threads are not servlets and if I add a listener spec to web.xml for them I get the startup message: 2003-03-10 12:30:47 StandardContext[]: Error configuring application listener of class com.foo.bar.RequestQMgr java.lang.InstantiationException: com.foo.bar.RequestQMgr . Even tho I can have my servlet communicate with the thread, it seems like Tomcat is busy shutting these down even before my contextDestroyed() method finishes. What is the proper way of shutting down these threads cleanly without Tomcat killing them first? -- Frank
