I created an implementation of ServletContextListener and was expecting its 
contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) method to be invoked AFTER the 
destroy() method of the single servlet for the web app.  The 2.4 servlet spec 
states:

public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce)
  Notification that the servlet context is about to be shut down. All servlets 
and filters have been destroy()ed before any ServletContextListeners are 
notified of context destruction.


Using Tomcat 5.0.25 and 5.0.27, the servlet destroy() method was invoked AFTER 
the contextDestroyed() method, in violation of the spec.  I tried with and 
without <load-on-startup> in the web.xml to see if this made a difference, and 
it did not.

NOTE:  The order of calls on the initialization side was correct and as I 
expected.  The method contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) in my 
ServletContextListener class was called before the init() methods of my 
servlet (and filters).