[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: javaw.exe keeps running in Windows

["Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The java VM will not keep running if you fail to dispose an SWT resource.
Are you exiting from your event loop?

"Bill Ewing" <ewing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In Task Manager, you see an instance of javaw.exe (Windows' jvm launcher)
> appear when you start eclipse.  We see another instance appear when we run
> our JFace app (either under eclipse or standalone).
>
> After exiting our app, its javaw.exe does not disappear from Task Manager.
>  They pile up, one for each run.  Eventually, system problems begin to
> occur.  Plus, when you try to shut down windows, you get all of these
> instances not responding to windows.
>
> It sure sounds like a memory leak, or a failure to dispose a system
> resource, such as a non standard color.
>
> But, we've scoured our app and commented out all such Color creations.  We
> don't do anything with fonts, so we're out of ideas as to what would cause
> this problem.  We have verified that this problem does not occur with
> simplistic apps.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on...?
>  1. What our problem is
>  2. Strategies for troubleshooting
>