problem in threads

**avinosh_k** · 01-10-2006, 12:14 AM

Hi iam a beginer .i want to run a daemon thread,as the program does not wait for the daemon thread we are not able to see the out put that we write in the daemon thread .How can we know daemon is alive even after the program is terminated .Please help me with an example.thank you .

**Joe Beam** · 01-10-2006, 03:25 AM

The daemon thread will by definition die when the program is terminated. Check out this link about threads. It has some good examples.

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java/exp/ch06_01.htm

**avinosh_k** · 01-10-2006, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Beam

The daemon thread will by definition die when the program is terminated. Check out this link about threads. It has some good examples.

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java/exp/ch06_01.htm

this is regarding ur reply to me .this is the text i cut from the book u sent to me, read it once.read the last line from the paragraph

In many cases, what we really want is to create background threads that do simple, periodic tasks in an application. The setDaemon() method can be used to mark a Thread as a daemon thread that should be killed and discarded when no other application threads remain. Normally, the Java interpreter continues to run until all threads have completed. But when daemon threads are the only threads still alive, the interpreter will exit.