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From: Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: refusal to quit
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:50:24 -0500
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On 8/29/14 11:56 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> Sometimes programs simply refuse to quit after main has terminated.
>
> Sometimes the app is single-thread so I am baffled what it is waiting
> for.
>
> Practically I can make things work by adding a System.exit(0)
> as the last thing in main.
>
> However, I would like to understand what is going on.  Is there a way
> to shed some light on why a program won't quit?

You're sure it hasn't started some other Thread under the covers, e.g. a 
la Swing? I'd start out with a census of the running Threads.

--Mike Amling
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