> Below the main code:

> public class HelloWorld {
>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>         // ### Configuration Objects ###
>         ServerConfig serverConfig = new ServerConfig();
>         DataSourceConfig dataSourceConfig = new DataSourceConfig();

>         // ### Configuration Settings ###
>         // -> data source
>         dataSourceConfig.setDriver("org.h2.Driver");
>         dataSourceConfig.setUsername("howtouser");
>         dataSourceConfig.setPassword("");
>         dataSourceConfig.setUrl("jdbc:h2:db/howto1");

>         // -> server
>         serverConfig.setName("default");
>         serverConfig.setDataSourceConfig(dataSourceConfig);

>         //  auto create db if it does not exist
>         if(!(new File("db/howto1.h2.db")).exists()  ){
>             serverConfig.setDdlGenerate(true);
>             serverConfig.setDdlRun(true);
>             serverConfig.addClass(Hello.class);
>         }

>         EbeanServer eServer = EbeanServerFactory.create(serverConfig);

>         long id = 3;
>         Hello data = eServer.find(Hello.class, id);
>         if (data == null) {
>             System.out.println("This is the first run, saving
> data..");
>             eServer.save(new Hello(id, "Hello World!"));
>         } else {
>             System.out.println(String.format("############\n%s
> \n############", data.getMessage()));
>         }
>         ShutdownManager.shutdown();
>     }

> }

> Thanks in advance

> alx

> On 18 Okt., 02:50, Rob Bygrave <robin.bygr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > When running the example application you should not need to shutdown H2.

> > It's actually not clear to me what you are doing and what your issue is ...
> > but I'll guess and say you are running the example application ... one of
> > the classes with a main method... and it is hanging / not terminating?

> > I haven't come across any problem like that... is this your issue or am I
> > misunderstanding?

> > Note that Ebean registers with the JVM shutdown hook ... and uses that to
> > close it's resources such as thread pools and Connection pools. It also can
> > trigger a GC to collection profiling information for Autofetch (with a small
> > wait of 100ms from memory).

> > Thanks, Rob.

> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Alex <alxa...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > > Thanks for the hint.

> > > > some if not all of those threads might belong to H2 so you probably
> > > > need to shout down H2 to get rid of them

> > > So, does anybody knows how can we get a reference to the underlying
> > > database object (in this case I think it is an instance of
> > > org.h2.engine.Database) ? By the way, isn't it something that Ebean
> > > should take care of? I didn't initialize the db, so I shouldn't be
> > > required to shut it down myself.