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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:24:29 -0400
From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Subject: Re: ProcessBuilder and waitFor prevents tomcat to continue
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Honyk,

On 10/14/13 3:51 PM, honyk wrote:
> my web app executes long running external scripts. It is triggered
> on startup (contextInitialized) and then regularly during the day.

Why do people do this? Cron is great. :(

> When the app server needs to be restarted and this process is
> running, tomcat waits till the process finishes.
> 
> When tomcat is starting, it waits again till processing is finished
> and after that it continues in loading.
> 
> My script is executed via ProcessBuilder with waitFor flag.
> 
> Is it possible: 1) to kill this external process automatically when
> tomcat is shut down?

You can try. Process.destroy(). There is no guarantee that the process
will actually die, or whether it will clean-up properly.

> 2) to execute the script for the first time in any post-init phase?
> By this I mean - my app is initialized so I can access the
> corresponding JSF setting page and in the same time long running
> script is running. Now the page cannot be displayed until process
> finishes.

You can launch the process and forget about it. Or, you can launch the
process in a separate thread and wait for it to complete, there.

> I expect it is rather OT here in tomcat dicussion, but it is quite
> unclear to me what I can expect from the app server here (if it can
> control this somehow or it is solely driven by my web app
> settings).

Most processes in the container are expected to be synchronous (except
- -- somewhat obviously -- for the servlet async stuff). If you need
things to behave differently, then you need to handle asynchronous
operations yourself (with threads).

- -chris
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