Trouble stopping a tomcat server that is running a web application with a while (true) loop

Question

I\'m developing a web application to be deployed onto Tomcat. When Tomcat is started, I use a servlet (in web.xml) to call a Java class:

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Answer 1

You have to place the code with the loop in a different thread and start the thread from your consumer.

private void consume() {
  Thread x = new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
      while(true) {
      ....
      }
   });
   x.start();
}