Question

I like to write a little server application being controlled by a little console app (start, pause, stop, etc). For the server spring should be used (part of it already exist). So what I do to start the server is something like this:

1. start a server thread and exit main method

and then, in the thread:

1. load application context from xml
2. start some worker threads connecting to beans doing stuff

Now I want the server to be stopped by another command. How can I connect to the already running context and shut it down?

Thanks for your help,
Alexander

Answer 1

The classical way to manage running Java code is through JMX.
Spring lets you export beans as MBeans.

And for accessing JMX via the command line, look at the answers to this recent question:

Calling JMX MBean method from a shell script