'dispose' method of component

[Jeremy Quinn]

Hi All

I am working with the 'authentication-fw' in FlowScript, having added  
an authenticator that uses Hibernate. ie. My authentication pipeline is  
now a FlowScript which calls an internal pipeline to produce the  
authentication XML for the framework.

I am finding that the 'dispose' method of my Hibernate component (based  
on Hugo Burm's HibernateFactory) never gets called, until I quit Jetty,  
which is not what I expected.

This is my authenticator script:

// this function is called internally by the auth-fw,
// to get a pipeline to return an authentication XML stream
function authenticate () {
  var username = cocoon.parameters["user"];
  var password = cocoon.parameters["pass"];
  var factory =  
cocoon.getComponent(Packages.[long.path.deleted].PersistanceFactory.ROLE 
);
  var session = factory.createSession();
  try {
    var user = Packages.[long.path.deleted].UserPeer.login(session,  
username, password, null);
    if (user != null) cocoon.log.info ("Got User : " + user.email); //  
lubbly jubbly
    cocoon.sendPage ("screen/authenticate", {user: user}); // a  
JXTemplateGenerator pipeline
  } catch (e) {
    cocoon.log.error (e.getMessage ());
  } finally {        //catch (return) not working
    cocoon.log.info ("Disposing of Factory"); // I see this message
    cocoon.releaseComponent(factory); // I do not see the log message  
from the dispose method
  }
}

public class HibernateFactory
  extends AbstractLogEnabled
  implements PersistanceFactory, Configurable, Serviceable,  
Initializable, Disposable, ThreadSafe

The dispose method looks like this:

public final void dispose()  {
  //if (getLogger().isDebugEnabled()) getLogger().debug("Hibernate  
dispose called");
  // why oh why is this logger null!!!!
  System.out.println ("Hibernate dispose called"); // I never see this
  try {
    sf.close();
  } catch ( Exception e) {
    //if (getLogger().isErrorEnabled()) getLogger().error("Hibernate:"  
+ e.getMessage());
    System.out.println ("Hibernate:" + e.getMessage());
  }  finally {
    sf = null;
  }
  this.disposed = true;
  this.manager = null;
 }

I thought cocoon.releaseComponent(factory) should call the dispose  
method .....
Is there a method it will call if I provided one?

Thanks for any suggestions.

regards Jeremy