For various reasons, I run ISPN in, what I call, HybridMode. I basically run ISPN in lib-mode in a WAR file and bootstrap a HotRodServer from a @WebListener. This allows me to startup the system on ServletContextListener.contextInitialized and cleanly shutdown the system on ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed. The app runs on JBoss EAP 6.3.0.

The problem I face is that, when I undeploy my application, I shutdown the HotRodServer using the stop() method, the HotRodServerWorker threads are stopped asynchronously (non-blocking). However, there is no hook into the NettyTransport class to actually check whether the WorkerGroup has completely stopped. JBoss EAP starts undeploying the app, removing classloaders, etc. while the HotRodServerWorker threads are still active. This eventually results in ClassNotFoundExceptions on some Netty classes:

09:38:10,315 ERROR [stderr] (HotRodServerWorker-3-39) java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/netty/util/concurrent/DefaultPromise$3
09:38:10,316 ERROR [stderr] (HotRodServerWorker-3-39) at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.notifyListeners(DefaultPromise.java:593)
09:38:10,316 ERROR [stderr] (HotRodServerWorker-3-39) at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.setSuccess(DefaultPromise.java:404)
09:38:10,324 ERROR [stderr] (HotRodServerWorker-3-39) at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:155)
09:38:10,324 ERROR [stderr] (HotRodServerWorker-3-39) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

I've currently solved this problem by putting a Thread.sleep in my shutdown code to give the threads some time to cleanly stop, but that's obviously not ideal. It would be nice to be able to somehow check whether the NettyTransport 'masterGroup' and 'workerGroup' have stopped, so I can check that in my shutdown sequence.