Exit Procedures

[Ben Pickering <be...@hotmail.com>]

Hi

I'm wondering how the Tomcat main() class exits.  Some of the classes I am 
writing (which will be used by a servlet) use the Swing ImageIcon class to 
load images.  This has the unfortunate side effect of starting a Swing 
thread, which is not a daemon, and doesn't return when the 'main()' class 
does.

So my question is, can I rely on Tomcat exiting with a System.exit(), thus 
terminating all the threads?  If not, is there a workaround?

And is there another way of loading an image without using ImageIcon?  It's 
annoying the way the VM lurks around even if all my code does is create a 
single instance of one.

Regards,
Ben Pickering
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