Bug 55125

Summary:	Tomcat does not shut down if LifecycleListener throws an exception
Product:	Tomcat 7	Reporter:	Glyn Normington <glyn.normington>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	7.0.41
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Attachments:	Logs

Description Glyn Normington 2013-06-21 11:23:54 UTC

Created attachment 30467 [details]
Logs

I needed to shut down Tomcat if an application fails to start. I was advised that a LifecycleListener could shut down Tomcat by throwing an IllegalStateException from its lifecycleEvent method. However, this produces severe errors in the logs, but Tomcat does not shut down.

I saw this behaviour on Tomcat 7.0.41 and 7.0.40 using the test web application from here:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-test-applications

and v1.0.0 of the listener from here:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack-support

(v1.1.0 of the listener was re-coded to halt the JVM).

I attach catalina.out.

Mark Thomas suggested I raise this bug, so he believes that Tomcat should shut down.

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2013-06-23 20:13:35 UTC

This has been fixed in trunk and 7.0.x and will be included in 7.0.42 onwards.