How can I shutdown Spring task executor/scheduler pools before all other beans in the web app are destroyed?

Two ways:

  1. Have a bean implement ApplicationListener<ContextClosedEvent>. onApplicationEvent() will get called before the context and all the beans are destroyed.

  2. Have a bean implement Lifecycle or SmartLifecycle. stop() will get called before the context and all the beans are destroyed.

Either way you can shut down the task stuff before the bean destroying mechanism takes place.

Eg:

@Component
public class ContextClosedHandler implements ApplicationListener<ContextClosedEvent> {
    @Autowired ThreadPoolTaskExecutor executor;
    @Autowired ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler;

    @Override
    public void onApplicationEvent(ContextClosedEvent event) {
        scheduler.shutdown();
        executor.shutdown();
    }       
}

(Edit: Fixed method signature)

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