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

From: Marina Vatkina <marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:21:00 -0700

Does the spec need to say this explicitly?

thanks,
-marina

Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
> +1
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> 2012/6/19 Reza Rahman <reza_rahman_at_lycos.com
> <mailto:reza_rahman_at_lycos.com>>
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> +1
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> 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
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>> jrbauer commented on EJB_SPEC-57:
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>> 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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>> 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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