Dropwizard: How to stop service programmatically

Question

To start the service, I know one uses new MyService().run(args). How to stop it?

I need to start and stop programmatically for setUp() and

Answer 1

Or you use this java feature in your main/constructor ...:

    // In case jvm shutdown
    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run()
        {
            // what should be closed if forced shudown
            // ....

            LOG.info(String.format("--- End of ShutDownHook (%s) ---", APPLICATION_NAME));
        }
    });