How to exit when problem with hibernate config files

purpleblade · **Joined:** Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:09 am **Posts:** 12

For development I would like to set Hibernate/Tomcat up so that if an error occurs while starting up the following happens:

1. An error is written to a log file that I specify
2. Tomcat exits (does not continue)
3. An email is sent to a list or group specified

I would like to set this up if there is an error with *ANY* Hibernate related config file. These errors are usually indicated in the tomcat or app server log. I want to immediately exit the app server and send notification.

thanks

R

batmat · **Posted:** Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:45 pm

I don't think it's possible to stop Tomcat when a problem occurs : in fact, you could stop the starting of your webapp, but happily Tomcat was not designed to crash when a webapp it's running can't start,obviously because that could impact some others apps already (well) running.

About the mail being sent, that's not complicated though. Hibernate uses commons-logging, which lets you use log4j for example as the actual logging system. So, just configure log4j to use an email appender, then choose the level from which you want emails to be sent : e.g. maybe you do not want to send messages less important than warn level, and you're done :-).