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

From: Florent BENOIT <Florent.Benoit_at_ow2.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:17:07 +0200

I think that now that async is supported for Embeddable container we
should add the change on the section.


Florent


On 07/05/2012 10:50 PM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
> Experts,
>
> I'm not making any changes to the section "18.2.4Embeddable Container
> Shutdown" unless I hear otherwise.
>
> -marina
>
> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>> Does the spec need to say this explicitly?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -marina
>>
>> Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
>>> +1
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/6/19 Reza Rahman <reza_rahman_at_lycos.com
>>> <mailto:reza_rahman_at_lycos.com>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/19/2012 12:07 PM, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
>>>> 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 <mailto: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
>>>> <mailto:jira-no-reply_at_java.net>>
>>>> Reply-To: issues_at_ejb-spec.java.net
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>>>> To: issues_at_ejb-spec.java.net
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [
>>>>
>>>> http://java.net/jira/browse/EJB_SPEC-57?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=341464#action_341464
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>>>> <http://java.net/jira/browse/EJB_SPEC-57?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=341464#action_341464>
>>>>
>>>> ]
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Define asynchronous thread behavior upon close of
>>>> embeddable container
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Key: EJB_SPEC-57
>>>> URL:
>>>> 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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