When the Sous-processus Arbortext PE terminates, it will attempt to inform its embedded JVM. The JVM will then inform the Application 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 Sous-processus Arbortext PE can terminate without calling each Java Application Arbortext PE's destroy method. This might happen if the Sous-processus 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.