[jira] Commented: (DAEMON-97) service stops after main method return on JDK 1.6u1

["Hontvari Jozsef (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Hontvari Jozsef commented on DAEMON-97:
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The Java specification says that the JRE will exit when there is no running non-daemon thread. It is not only the specification, but all software I have seen worked this way, even GUI apps. They create their Thread descendant or Runnable, and start it. Nothing else happens in main, it just returns. I don't see the benefit of having a main function and thread which calls a blocking method when the program starts and does nothing, just waits, until the program stops. 
Anyway, considering that nobody else had been interested in this issue for three years, it does not worth your time.

> service stops after main method return on JDK 1.6u1 
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>                 Key: DAEMON-97
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-97
>             Project: Commons Daemon
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1
>         Environment: Windows 2003, Sun JDK1.6u1
>            Reporter: Hontvari Jozsef
>            Priority: Critical
>
> The installed service immediately stops in this environment when the main method returns even if there is a non-daemon thread (created and started by the main method). The same code runs well on JavaService.

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