Trapping Webapp restarts

[teledyn]

When a war file is updated, Resin will shutdown, unpack and restart the webapp; is there a method that gets called on the webapp servlet to notify the application to do any needed housekeeping?

I have tried destroy(), it is never called, and finalize() is called when the resin server itself is killed, but not called when the webapp is reloaded. Should I be using some caucho extension to the basic javax HttpServlet?

I am using Resin 3.0; please feel free to just point me at the pertinent documentation ;) -- thanks in advance for your advice on this.

[teledyn]

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[ferg]

thanks for the spam report. I think it's a business, because we get about 20-30 spams forum postings a day (that's why it's moderated.) Even though no one ever sees the moderated posts, they still post 20 a day.

[ferg]

The easiest is either a load-on-startup servlet with a void destroy() method, or a ServletContextListener registered using <listener> in the resin-web.xml.

[teledyn]

I had the load-on-startup servlet with a void destroy() and while it was called when the resin is shutdown, it wasn't called when a servlet is restarted due to a war file update; I'll double check that to be certain, and I'll also check out the servletContextListener config.

thanks for the tip (and the spam removal ;)