How can I shutdown Spring task executor/scheduler pools before all other beans in the web app are destroyed?

Question

In a Spring web application I have several DAO and service layer beans. One service layer bean has annotated @Async / @Scheduled methods. These methods depend on other (auto

Answer 1

I had similar issues with the threads being started in Spring bean. These threads were not closing properly after i called executor.shutdownNow() in @PreDestroy method. So the solution for me was to let the thread finsih with IO already started and start no more IO, once @PreDestroy was called. And here is the @PreDestroy method. For my application the wait for 1 second was acceptable.

@PreDestroy
    public void beandestroy() {
        this.stopThread = true;
        if(executorService != null){
            try {
                // wait 1 second for closing all threads
                executorService.awaitTermination(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            }
        }
    }

Here I have explained all the issues faced while trying to close threads.http://programtalk.com/java/executorservice-not-shutting-down/