When the Subproceso de Arbortext PE terminates, it will attempt to inform its embedded JVM. The JVM will then inform the Aplicación Arbortext PE Context, which will call the destroy method of each loaded Arbortext Publishing Engine Java application. The destroy method should release resources, delete scratch files, and so forth.

An Subproceso de Arbortext PE can terminate without calling each Java Aplicación Arbortext PE's destroy method. This might happen if the Subproceso de Arbortext PE crashes suddenly or is forced to terminate by the operating system. In these situations, system resources (open files, network resources, and so on) are deallocated by the system.