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[jsr345-experts] Re: EJB_SPEC-57) Define asynchronous thread behavior upon close of embeddable container]

From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:07:13 +0200

Well, would expect the same behavior you discribe for GlassFish : the execution
is aborted when the server shutsdown (I don't want the embedded container
to get locked while a thread is trying to finish its processing).

Antonio

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Marina Vatkina
<marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com>wrote:

> Experts,
>
> What do your think? How do you expect your embedded containers handle the
> async calls during EJBContainer.close and JVM exit?
>
> GlassFish (RI) uses the same code for embedded and regular shutdown, where
> the bean is unloaded right away, and any method execution is pretty much
> aborted when the server shutdown event is received. JVM exit is intercepted
> and EJBContainer.close() steps are executed in the background.
>
> thanks,
> -marina
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ejb-spec issues] [JIRA] Commented: (EJB_SPEC-57) Define
> asynchronous thread behavior upon close of embeddable container
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:39:55 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
> From: jrbauer (JIRA) <jira-no-reply_at_java.net>
> Reply-To: issues_at_ejb-spec.java.net
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> jrbauer commented on EJB_SPEC-57:
> ------------------------------**---
>
> Section 18.2.4 (pd1) does contain some verbiage around shutdown
> requirements and expectations of the embeddable container. I shied away
> mentioning any sort of asynch shutdown expectations for containers in an EE
> environment since I too couldn't find anything around this topic in the
> specs. Introducing something now would likely cause compatibility issues
> for most vendors. But, since asynch support will be new in the embeddable
> container we have an opportunity to introduce some
> commonality/predictability without release compatibility concerns.
>
>
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>
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> Define asynchronous thread behavior upon close of embeddable container
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ----------
>>
>> Key: EJB_SPEC-57
>> URL: http://java.net/jira/browse/**EJB_SPEC-57<http://java.net/jira/browse/EJB_SPEC-57>
>> Project: ejb-spec
>> Issue Type: Improvement
>> Affects Versions: 3.2
>> Reporter: jrbauer
>>
>> Issue EJB_SPEC-13 adds asynchronous method invocation to EJB lite, which
>> may be implemented by an embeddable container. The specification should
>> define the behavior of the embeddable container regarding any outstanding
>> asynchronous invocations upon closing the container (EJBContainer.close())
>> and since close() is not required, exit of main within the JVM.
>> Transactionally, it seems to make the most sense for EJBContainer.close()
>> and JVM exit to wait for any outstanding asynchronous threads before
>> exiting. This provides consistent behavior, but at the risk of having an
>> ill-behaved thread block the container or JVM from closing/exiting.
>>
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