Do I have to explicitly call System.exit() in a Webstart application?

Question

Recently I converted a Swing application to Webstart. The process was pretty straightforward, but I found that after I close all windows, my application\'s JVM did not termi

Answer 1

Webstart starts the Console window (you may be able to disable that). The console window is used to see stdout/err of the webstart process as well as rudimentary log/debug but has the side effect of created a top-level AWT/Swing window. Since the AWT/EDT only ends when the LAST window is disposed, the console window is holding up your application. You should probably call System.exit() to be 100% sure your application exits (unless you can gurantee a certain client configuration, webstart console turned off)