DeleteOnExit jvm shutdown

I currently have a tomcat webapp that needs files deleted when the JVM is being shutdown. I created a custom ContextLoaderListener to handle the contextDestroyed event. Inside of here I call deleteOnExit on the appropriate files. However, ever since jdk 1.6.0_14 I am unable to deleteOnExit. Googling indicates that there was a change that is somewhat expected, but I haven't seen a work around for this. Anyone have any ideas?

Below code does NOT work.

for(File f : myFileLi开发者_Python百科st)
try{
    f.deleteOnExit()
} finally {
    f.delete()
}

I don't think you're going to be happy with the results of cleaning up files as part of an orderly shutdown process. For example, if your process crashes or is stopped with "kill -9", then your cleanup code will not run.

A more reliable approach is to set up the environment during start up / initialization. If you segregate the files for this application in a specific directory, then this is easy: just empty the directory in question.

Exactly where the "empty directory" call belongs, depends on your application. For example, if you wrote a servlet, then use the init method. Or, if you use Spring, then they provide various initialization hooks such as an init-method.