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

If it is going to be a web based application, you can also use the ServletContextListener interface.

public class SLF4JBridgeListener implements ServletContextListener {

   @Autowired 
   ThreadPoolTaskExecutor executor;

   @Autowired 
   ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler;

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {

    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {
         scheduler.shutdown();
         executor.shutdown();     

    }

}