Calling System.exit() in Servlet's destroy() method

Question

This is a follow up to my earlier question.

Tomcat 5.0.28 had a bug where the Servlet\'s destroy() method was not being invoked by the container on a shutdown. This

Answer 1

When writing thread shutdown code like Jared's, I normally make the "keepGoing" member and "stopExecuting()" method static so that all threads get the signal to go down with one shutdown call. Good idea or no?