I don't see anything in Branch_4_2 code either to indicate the connectors are being shutdown early. Anyway, if I do a simple startup/shutdown of JBoss I can see in the console log some webapps get undeployed before the connectors are paused/stopped. I've been experimenting with stopping the connectors based on the JMX notification. One thing I'm seeing is if you invoke stop() on the connectors during the notification callback, Tomcat logs errors during stopService as it tries to stop them again. If I just call pause() on the connectors instead of stop() I don't have that problem, but AFAICT that means a client with a keep-alive connection will still be able to make requests. Dominik, I'll create that simple NotificationListener sar I mentioned on our call today and send it to you. That will let you experiment with this on a standard 4.2.x. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089509#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...