[logback-user] How to release appender resources on application end/undeployment

[ceki]

You need to call LoggerContext's reset() or stop() methods.

Here is the code:

  import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
  import ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext;
  ...
  LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
  lc.reset();

HTH,
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Ceki
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On 14.12.2012 10:40, jvm.pointer wrote:
> Hi,
> I`m writing an appender that sends log messages to RabbitMQ.
> The appender extends ch.qos.logback.core.AppenderBase<ILoggingEvent>,
> obtains connection to RabbitMQ in start() method, sends a message to
> RabbitMQ in append(ILoggingEvent event) and releases that connection in
> the stop() method.
> The sending part works well but I`ve a problem with logback not calling
> appenders` stop() method when all desktop application` threads end or
> when the web app is undeployed.
> I don`t know if it`s a bug or (more probably) I`m missing something but
> the end result is that the stop() method is not being called, so the
> connection to RabbitMQ is not released and the desktop application never
> terminates and web applications cause memory leaks because of that
> hanging connection.
> For example tomcat reports the following:
> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
> SEVERE: The web application [/context_name] appears to have started a
> thread named [AMQP Connection 127.0.0.1:5672] but has failed to stop it.
> This is very likely to create a memory leak.
> I'll be grateful for any suggestions and tips on how to release appender
> resources on application end / undeployment.
> If it`s not my wrong assumption that logback should call stop() method
> to stop/deregister the appender I`ll fill in a JIRA issue.
>