diff --git a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
index cca16b5..3c6f409 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
@@ -56,6 +56,19 @@ public class Snappy
      */
     private static SnappyNative impl;
 
+
+    /**
+     * Clean up a temporary file (native lib) generated by snappy-java.
+     * General users do not need to call this method, since the native library extracted in snappy-java
+     * is deleted upon JVM termination (vie deleteOnExit()).
+     * This method is useful when using a J2EE container, which will restart servlet containers multiple times without
+     * restarting JVM.
+     */
+    static void cleanUp() {
+        SnappyLoader.cleanUpExtractedNativeLib();
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Copy bytes from source to destination
      * 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoader.java b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoader.java
index 1e234e0..d60f82d 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoader.java
@@ -82,7 +82,14 @@ public class SnappyLoader
 
     private static volatile boolean     isLoaded                        = false;
     private static volatile SnappyNative api                             = null;
-    
+
+    private static File nativeLibFile = null;
+
+    static void cleanUpExtractedNativeLib() {
+        if(nativeLibFile != null && nativeLibFile.exists())
+            nativeLibFile.delete();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Set the api instance.
      * 
@@ -153,10 +160,10 @@ public class SnappyLoader
      */
     private static void loadNativeLibrary() {
 
-        File nativeLib = findNativeLibrary();
-        if (nativeLib != null) {
+        nativeLibFile = findNativeLibrary();
+        if (nativeLibFile != null) {
             // Load extracted or specified snappyjava native library.
-            System.load(nativeLib.getAbsolutePath());
+            System.load(nativeLibFile.getAbsolutePath());
         }
         else {
             // Load preinstalled snappyjava (in the path -Djava.library.path)