Hi,
> I don't know > enough about finer points of shutdown hooks to comment on the distinctio, > but my off the cuff assumption is that a shutdown hook would be a bad idea > ... in a long running program wouldn't thta keep the IndexWriter > from being GCed until shutdown? > Could be, haven't use them either... ...If IW.close() calls RT.removeShutdownHook() I think this should work. Doron
