> Hi!
>
> I want to implement a daemon thread that is still alive after the
> program exits. Is that possible? I was told that when only daemon
> threads remain in a program, JVM exits. Does that mean the daemon
> threads also exit?
>
Correct.
> I want to use a daemon thread to do some background control, for
> example, if a servlet session has idled for 20 minutes, the daemon
> thread will invalidate this session.
>
You won't need a deamon thread to watch for invalid sessions, a
normal Java thread will do the job just fine.
Chris Gow
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