Re: Working On Classpath

[Thomas Zander]

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On Thursday 27 May 2004 04:20, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> AFAIK, Java apps. should die when all non-daemon
>
> > threads have stopped (i.e. the GC can still be running, as its a
> > daemon).
>
> Right, but we can't make all default threads daemons, or programs will
> exit right away.  The two non-daemon threads in a typical AWT program
> are EventDispatchThread and GtkMainThread.  I'm wondering if we should
> make GtkMainThread a daemon, and have the exit criteria for AWT programs
> be that all threads except EventDispatchThread are daemons, all
> EventQueues are empty, and all top-level windows have been disposed.

Having a jvm-reaper check if no events are present seems like a design that 
moves the logic to the wrong place.
Why not let the event-dispatch thread die when all top-level windows are 
disposed?

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Thomas
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