Shutdown ExecutorService gracefully in webapp?

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Shutdown hook is not a good approach in Tomcat because:

  • it will close the pool too late (on shutdown), Tomcat will already warn you about not closed resources

  • you actually want to shutdown that pool when application is undeployed so that redeployment works (otherwise each application will create new pool and they will all be closed only on complete shutdown)

  • shutting down the thread pool might take some time (see below), shutdown hook should be as fast as possible

Much better place is ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed(). Remember you have to both shutdownNow() the pool (to cancel running and reject new tasks) and awaitTermination() to wait for already running tasks to finish and all threads to stop.

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