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

I suggest using ehcache to cache this information. If you use ehcache's persistent store, then when you start Tomcat again, the cached data will still be available.

In effect, this delegates the issue to ehcache, which is optimised for these types of problems.