Shutdown Fails

[mandrachek]

In some cases I've run into, tomcat receives the shutdown command, but never appears to finish shutting down.
In developing my own plugin that runs tomcat (not nearly as general purpose as gretty), I ran into the same issue.

After configuring tomcat, run and await:

public void runTomcat() {
   tomcat.start();
   server.await();
   tomcat.stop();
   tomcat.destroy();
}

I'm not sure what the problem is - some simple examples worked fine, but loading something more complicated - it seems the shutdown just hangs. I was able to fix it in my code however simply by doing:

public void runTomcat() {
   tomcat.start();
   server.await();
   tomcat.stop();
   tomcat.destroy();
   System.exit(0);
}

Now my shutdown occurs, and the gradle task actually finishes.