RE: [aspectj-users] Capturing shutdown

["Jeffrey Palm" <jpalm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11:13:33 am 06/02/05 Eric Bodden <eric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Valentin Crettaz wrote:
> >  Have you tried investigating
> >  java.lang.Runtime.addShutdownHook(java.lang.Thread)
> >  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#addS
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> >  utdownHook(java.lang.Thread)
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> Yes, I have. Thanks for the hint. However I would really prefer a
> pure AspectJ solution, since shutdown hooks are not 100% reliable
> AFAIK.


Can you give an example when they are not reliable?  

addShutdownHook is the right way to do this.  A vm could exit for a number
of reasons: e.g. calling System.exit, vm error, out of memory, user
break... I don't think AspectJ can capture any or at least not all of these


Jeff
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