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Ted:

You don't exit applets -- it's not your VM to kill.  You have to
handle any shutdown items you want and can call a method for that
whenever *you* want to (say on stop()).

Applications you traditionally use System.exit().  Make sure to wire
up the various Frame methods for Window Closing events, etc.

The javaw behaviour you see pre-dates JBuilder and is the main reason
we don't default to the execution log in JBuilder and use the console
instead.

-Rich

Ted Rallis wrote:
> 
> How and why does one exit a java program (applet or application)
> elegantly?
> 
> I suppose you should call dispose() on all the windows and the VM should
> exit if there are no outstanding threads.
> If you call System.exit() that could be rude to other classes running in
> the same VM. Uncomfortably, my experience is that javaw in jbuilder
> becomes a zombie process when I only dispose() of all windows.
> 
> How do you exit from applets and applications elegantly?
> 
> Ted Rallis

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