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Use System.exit with care
System.exit should be used with care. The normal method of terminating a program is to terminate all user threads.
Cases in which System.exit is appropriate:
- utility scripts
- GUI applications, in which the event dispatch user thread is created in the background. Here, the program may be terminated by calling System.exit, or, for example, by setting:
JFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE)From Oracles's Portability Cookbook:
"The System.exit method forces termination of all threads in
the Java virtual machine. This is drastic....System.exit should
be reserved for a catastrophic error exit, or for cases when a program
is intended for use as a utility in a command script that may depend on
the program's exit code."
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