🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks. That gets me started.


"Torsten Welches" <torsten.welches@who.cares.netcologne.de> wrote in message
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>
> Greg,
>
> no, a Frame does not automatically die as soon as the main method
> ends. The Virtual Machine will stop when all (non-daemon)
> threads are finished.
> Frames run inside the event dispatch thread, which is
> automatically started for you if you use any ui stuff.
> So although the main method terminates are there still non-
> daemon threads alive - the program keeps running.
>
> I have no reference handy apart from the Virtual Machine
> Specification:
>
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#191
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>
> Torsten
>
> "Greg Safford" <gsafford@springmail.com> wrote:
> >I see lots of Java applications that directly or indirectly create a
window
> >(say by instantiating a class derived from JFrame). Since the frame
object
> >is created in the scope of the main() method, I'd expect the frame object
to
> >be destroyed when the main() method returns. However, it is plain that
this
> >does not happen; the frame window remains until closed, as if a reference
to
> >it were being kept in some global collection.
> >
> >Can anyone point me to a reference explaining what keeps such an object
> >alive?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Greg Safford
> >
> >
>