JBoss shutdown on iSeries

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An archive search revealed several messages regarding use of the JBoss
application server on the iSeries. I have been trying to use JBoss under
V5R1 with some success, but I have a problem: shutdown.

I can get JBoss to run, but when I attempt to shut it down by using
SysReq-2, it immediately terminates the JVM as well as JBoss. Because the
JVM is terminated immediately, the JBoss shutdown hooks are not executed.
Therefore the shutdown is not controlled, cleanup tasks are not performed,
shutdown messages are not written to the log files, etc. I fear that
repeated "hard shutdowns" would destroy the integrity of the JBoss system,
precluding its use for mission critical work.

Has anyone else encountered this shutdown problem and solved it? Is there a
way to shut down JBoss properly under OS/400, perhaps using an API or some
other operator interface?

IBM investigated this issue and after several months, they replied that
JBoss should be using a different shutdown technique and that no fix would
be produced because the real problem is the way JBoss is coded. I am
relatively new to java and the programming details are beyond me, but IBM
quotes a Sun document that seems to support their assertion. The explanation
is contained in the following APAR:

http://www-912.ibm.com/n_dir/nas4apar.NSF/c79815e083182fec862564c00079d117/b
89ec0daa9e1d43486256c6400426f0a

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

THANK YOU,

-Marty