Occasional InterruptedException when quitting a Swing application

Question

I recently updated my computer to a more powerful one, with a quad-core hyperthreading processor (i7), thus plenty of real concurrency available. Now I\'m occasionally

Answer 1

Threads in java only terminate when all of run() methods finish execution. Otherwise you will always have those Thread extended objects in VM messing around. You have to finish all the threads before exiting the Application.

Also consider that when you create your jFrame you are starting a Thread (CURRENT_THREAD I believe)