XAResource.stop not called on shutdown

Question

It seems that the stop method isn't called during an orderly shutdown of the J2EE 1.4 app server. I execute "Stop Default Domain". However, it is called when I stop it via Deploy Tool and als during redeploy.
Is there something to configure?
Problem is that SwiftMQ is started intraVM within the app server. It is started via XAResource.start and stopped in the stop method. If the latter isn't called, SwiftMQ is hard stopped and runs through the recovery procedure each time it starts up.
-- Andreas

Answer 1

I think, you mean resourceadapter.stop() and not
XAResource.stop.Ooops. ;-) Of course, I meant ResourceAdapter...
It is a bit tricky to do RA.stop when appserver gets
shutdown. Typically RA.stop will be called only when
the resource adapter is undeployed.
It is tricky to call RA.stop while shutting down,
since a RA might potentially hang at RA.stop and thus
can fail the appserver shutdown.
So, it is intentionally not called while appserver
shuts down.
What is your view?I would prefer to have an option to configure it. The default should be that stop is called. I guess the spec requires that or not?
With SwiftMQ we have 2 different deployment options of our RA (and 2 different rar files with predefined properties). One option is to use an external SwiftMQ router. Here it is fine if you don't call the stop method because the RA is stateless and the SwiftMQ router is external. However, the other option is to run a SwiftMQ router intraVM, it is started during the RA.start method and is shut down during the RA.stop method. Since a SwiftMQ router writes a last check point on its tx log during an orderly shutdown, it is important that RA.stop is called otherwise this would be a hard crash for SwiftMQ and requires to run through the recovery procedure during startup.
-- Andreas