To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered

Question

I am getting this message when I run my web application. It runs fine but I get this message during shutdown.

SEVERE: A web application registered the

Answer 1

In your servlet context listener contextDestroyed() method, manually deregister the drivers:

// This manually deregisters JDBC driver, which prevents Tomcat 7 from complaining about memory leaks wrto this class
Enumeration drivers = DriverManager.getDrivers();
while (drivers.hasMoreElements()) {
    Driver driver = drivers.nextElement();
    try {
        DriverManager.deregisterDriver(driver);
        LOG.log(Level.INFO, String.format("deregistering jdbc driver: %s", driver));
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        LOG.log(Level.SEVERE, String.format("Error deregistering driver %s", driver), e);
    }
}