Best way to force Spring shutdown from a bean?

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Published on 2010-03-08T12:55:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 18:01 UTC
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My application uses a Spring DefaultMessageListenerContainer to process incoming messages. The main method of the app already registers a shutdown hook.

Question is this: what is the best way to force the application context to shut down?

If I throw a RuntimeException in the message listener, it is handled by the container, and not passed on. Is calling System.exit acceptable? Do I pass along the ApplicationContext to every class that needs to shut down, so I can call close() on it?

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