Question

I’m looking for a way to properly shutdown (Undeploy) an Java Web Application within the application itself. I’ve tried System.exit(), but this not only shutdown the webApp but also messes up Glassfish.

I know about the contextlistener, I’m just wondering how to start the shutdown procedure.

Answer 1

The usual approach is to use the asadmin undeploy command.

The general form for the command is:

as-install/bin/asadmin undeploy war-name

For war-name, use the literal hello, not the full hello.war name.

For the hello.war example, the command is:

as-install/bin/asadmin undeploy hello

See the following references:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19798-01/821-1757/geyvr/index.html

http://docs.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19798-01/821-1758/undeploy-1/index.html

To undeploy programmatically, you can use JSR-88 though i cant really see a reason as to why you would want to do this. See

http://blogs.oracle.com/japod/entry/using_jsr_88_for_web

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=88