Handling lifecycle events

You can write a class that handles events from the application lifecycle.

Your lifecycle class implements the interface com.jivesoftware.base.plugin.Plugin, which has two methods: init and destroy.

Use the init method to perform actions (such as create connections to resources) that your plugin will likely need throughout its life.
Use the destroy method to release resources and perform actions that are the last things your plugin should do.

You specify the presence of a lifecycle class with the plugin.xml class element:

<class>com.example.plugin.MyPluginLifecycle</class>