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    Shutdown Hooks

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    helloworld922
    , September 21st, 2011 at 01:43 AM
    Shutdown hooks are threads to be run when the JVM is about to terminate. This can happen if all non-daemon threads have finished execution, System.Exit() has been called, or if the user is logging off/shutting down their OS among other operations.

    So to play around, I decided to write a simple shutdown hook that would print out "goodbye!" when the JVM was shutting down. The main program would spawn a number of threads which each would stay alive for some number of time. ...

    Updated September 21st, 2011 at 01:50 AM by helloworld922

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