When is a servletcontext destroyed?

[Adam Zedan]

I wanted to know under what circumstances is a servlet context destroyed ??

[Bear Bibeault]

When the web app is taken out of service.

[Madangopal Venkatesan]

Ideally, the ServletContext gets destroyed when the App server (Tomcat or JBoss) is shut down or sometimes even restarted.

[Bear Bibeault]

Madangopal Venkatesan wrote:Ideally, the ServletContext gets destroyed when the App server (Tomcat or JBoss) is shut down or sometimes even restarted.

Well that will certainly cause all the applications within it to be taken out of service, but web applications can be taken out of service without having to shut down or restart the container itself.

[Suhas Mandrawadkar]

Bear Bibeault wrote:

Madangopal Venkatesan wrote:Ideally, the ServletContext gets destroyed when the App server (Tomcat or JBoss) is shut down or sometimes even restarted.

Well that will certainly cause all the applications within it to be taken out of service, but web applications can be taken out of service without having to shut down or restart the container itself.

True, But what about the scenario when the web app is deployed and yet not started to service requests ?
So I would say when web app is undeployed or the server goes down

[Bear Bibeault]

Suhas Mandrawadkar wrote:True, But what about the scenario when the web app is deployed and yet not started to service requests ?

What about it? If there's no app, there's no context to worry about at all. There's no point to this observation.

[Shyam Ramath]

Bear Bibeault wrote:

Suhas Mandrawadkar wrote:True, But what about the scenario when the web app is deployed and yet not started to service requests ?

What about it? If there's no app, there's no context to worry about at all. There's no point to this observation.

Is there anyway to re-start the servlet container with out restarting the app server ?

[Bear Bibeault]

Which app server?

[Shyam Ramath]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Which app server?

JBoss or Tomcat

[Peter Johnson]

I know of no way to restart the servlet container without restarting all of JBoss AS.

[Shyam Ramath]

Peter Johnson wrote:I know of no way to restart the servlet container without restarting all of JBoss AS.

thanks Peter .