Jboss 7.0.2, 7.1 does not call ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) on shutdown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-5645 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5645 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Server Affects Versions: 7.0.2.Final, 7.1.0.Final, 7.1.1.Final Environment: Windows 7 64 bit Reporter: Alexey Alexey Assignee: Jason Greene Labels: ServletContext, Servlet_Context Jboss 7.0.2, 7.1 (standalone) does not call ServletContextListener .contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) on shutdown. Shutdown was performed with Ctrl^C and also with command jboss-admin.bat --connect command=:shutdown I had the same result - jboss does not call destroying. This listener was successfully initialized on startup with ServletContextListener.contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event). This listener is registered in web.xml in standart way: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"> .... <listener> <listener-class>Full_classname_of_listener</listener-class> </listener> </web-app>