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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:49:44+00:00

I am creating a Java service which will run within a web servlet container

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I am creating a Java service which will run within a web servlet container (probably Tomcat). One portion of the server will run on its own and will not be initiated by HTTP. I know that when an HTTP call causes an exception, the web container can call it again.

I want to be sure that the part of the server which runs continuously will continue to run, even if it fails. I will handle whichever failures I can manually, but if it all fails I want something to restart it all. Are there any tools that can accomplish this easily? I am already using Spring and Tomcat, so if those can provide it, that is ideal. If not, then how about a good design pattern?

Edit: To clarify, I have a web service which will run in Tomcat. I want to run a separate thread within that service and set it up such that when the thread ends or an un-handled exception occurs, Tomcat (or something else) detects the failure and restarts the web service. I know that typically web containers have threads start from some external call and thus handle failures from those threads. What I want is something which handles a background worker thread.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are running inside a Servlet then as per J2EE spec, you cannot restart the container but, you can use ScheduledExecutorService to continuously monitor that your service is running and if not, then re-start it.

    EDIT. More details below

    You can call isTerminated() to check if the service still running and add more tasks to it, if the queue is empty.

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