Re: [Springframework-developer] DisposableBean / destroy-method -> never gets called

[Roman R. <r.r...@we...>]

> Hi Roman,
>
> As we have heard about this rather strange behavior before, ContextLoader
> has been reworked for 1.2 RC2: It keeps a reference to the root
> WebApplicationContext instance that it creates now, closing exactly that
> context instance on shutdown of the web application.
>
> Hence, it doesn't matter anymore whether the ServletContext attribute is
> still available when ContextLoaderListener gets called. Arguably, the
> Servlet engine should remove the ServletContext attributes *after* calling
> all listeners (which all Servlet engines seemed to do) - but we're not
> relying on that behavior anymore now.
>
> Please give Spring 1.2 RC2 a try and let me know whether it works for you!
>
> Juergen

Yes, with RC2 it=B4s working fine. No problems anymore. Thanks!

Roman


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spr...@li...
> [mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
> Of Roman Roelofsen
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:21 PM
> To: spr...@li...
> Subject: [Springframework-developer] DisposableBean / destroy-method ->
> never gets called
>
>
> Hi Spring developers!
>
> I=B4m using Spring for my current WebApp project and I found a strange
> behaviour of Spring.
>
> I=B4m not sure if I=B4m doing something wrong or if it=B4s a bug. So, per=
haps you
> can take a look at.
>
> First, here is my posting in the Spring forum which describes my problem:
> http://forum.springframework.org/viewtopic.php?t=3D5003
>
> I tried to debug Spring to track the problem down. Here=B4s what I have:
>
> 1. All beans which are implementing the interface DisposableBean are stor=
ed
> in the map AbstractBeanFactory.disposableBeans. But the method
> AbstractBeanFactory.destroySingletons() gets only called for the factory
> "-servlet.xml", not for the other two xml files.
>
> 2. On shutdown, ContextLoaderListener.contextDestroyed() calls
> ContextLoader.closeWebApplicationContext(). But
>
> servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CO=
NT
>E XT_ATTRIBUTE);
>
> always returns null. Perhaps the ServletContext is destroyed when the
> Listener gets informed? While my app is running,
>
> servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CO=
NT
>E XT_ATTRIBUTE);
>
> returns the correct application context.
>
> I=B4m shutting down my webapp with the url:
> http://localhost:8080/manager/stop?path=3D/mywebapp
>
> My environment:
> Tomcat 5.5.7
> Java 1.5
> Spring 1.2RC1
>
> Please let me know if you need more information.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Roman