shutdown hook for java web application

Question

I need to save some data preferrably when the java web application is stopped, or when tomcat is stopped. how can this be done? Edit: any drawback if I use the jvm shutdown

Answer 1

As an addition to leonm's answer:

If you use Spring, you can use Spring's "lifecycle management" to achieve a similar effect. For example, you can annotate a method in a bean with @PreDestroy to have it invoked automatically on container shutdown. That way, you don't need to put anything into the web.xml.

See Spring beans factory lifecycle.