JNDI lookup in ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed

Question

I'm using JBoss 7.1.1 and servlet-api 2.5.

I have to shutdown some objects which located in JNDI on application shutdown.

I'm using ServletContextListener for this purposes:

public class MyServletContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
    ...

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        ((TaskClient) new InitialContext().lookup("myName")).disconnect();
    }
}

But I get exception:

Error looking up myName, service service 
jboss.naming.context.java.myName is not started

If I try to lookup the object when application is running everything is fine.

Thank you for any help.

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update

How I bind data to jndi:

public class MyJbpmServletContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
    public static final String TASK_CLIENT_JNDI_NAME = "myJbpmTaskClient";
    private Log logger = SLF4JLogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        try {
            TaskClient tc = ...
            // long initialization of TaskClient
            InitialContext context = new InitialContext();
            context.bind(TASK_CLIENT_JNDI_NAME, client);
        } catch (NamingException exception) {
            logger.error("Cannot bind task client", exception);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        try {
            ((TaskClient) new InitialContext().lookup(TASK_CLIENT_JNDI_NAME)).disconnect();
        } catch (NamingException exception) {
            logger.error("Cannot obtain task client", exception);
        }
    }
}

The object is accessible on following path TASK_CLIENT_JNDI_NAME when application runs. But when contextDestroyed called I have NamingException.

I don't know how and when it's destroyed. I only sure that I'm not rebind or unbind it.

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update2

I also tried to use jndi paths java:comp/myName, java:comp/env/myName, java:/myName, java:jboss/myName. Behavior is the same: it possible to lookup object when application runs and unable to do it when ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed method called.

Answer 1

Looks like a JBoss bug to me, I created AS7-5746