Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

When I shut down tomcat, tomcat shuts down but the console window stays open and the system.out.prinln text from my class using Thread still shows.

Can I sense in my class if tomcat is still running? Or maby I call a method when tomcat stops to kill my thread?

In my web.xml I have the following code:

<servlet>
    	<servlet-name>Background Processor</servlet-name>
    	<servlet-class>src.com.business.Engine</servlet-class>
    	<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>  

The Engine class is as follows:

public class Engine extends HttpServlet {

	public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
      	super.init(config);

		CheckEndedItems checkEndedItems = CheckEndedItems.getInstance();
		checkEndedItems.start();
	}
}

The CheckEndedItems class implements Thread

Does someone know how I can stop this Thread when tomcat shuts down?

Thanks.