May I ask what the difference between a daemon thread and a regular thread
are?
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From: Chris Gow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: daemon thread
> > 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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