OK, after spending a considerable amount of time crawling through Tomcat's Bootstrap and Catalina classes. I have narrowed the problem down I believe. It seems that the Bootstrap.stop() method is capable of stopping all of the threads except for one named "http-8080...". When the Bootstrap.start() is subsequently invoked an exception is throw when the start() method attempts to load the class loaders again. The only remnant of Tomcat left at that point is the lone thread I mentioned above. In looking at the class for the thread "org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadWithAttributes" there does not appear to be a way to bring the thread down gracefully. In tracking down the actual source, it extends Thread which usually means there is a concrete "run()" method...not in this case. So, tomcat must be using a technique I'm not familiar with to satisfy the "run()" requirement.
It seems from looking at the code that tomcat attempts to allow a restart of sorts but, to my un-enlightened eye it looks like the implementation is not quite there to fully support that notion. So, it looks like once you start a tomcat instance within a JVM you are for the most part stuck with it unless you want to terminate the entire JVM and restart the application. I'm not sure that is a good long term solution but, it is the best I can do I think at this point. If anyone has any insights please don't hesitate to share. Fran Fran Varin wrote: > > > I took a look at the source for Tomcat 6 and the "// FIXME" remains in the > "destroy" method within "Bootstrap" as well. > > The lack of documentation around this part of Tomcat's API is not helping > much here either. So, it begs the question is what I've coded sufficient > to start and stop Tomcat from a Java class sufficient or am I missing > something? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Fran > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bootstrap-stop%28%29-tf3296281.html#a9198023 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
