[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Sending shutdown event to a running applica

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was going to test shutdown hook in my program, but haven't found any 
> way to send shutdown event to an application run from the eclipse (run 
> via run as/debug as).

If it's an OSGi application, you can start it with -console and then 
write "close"+<newline> to the launched process' console.

See also https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=192878

Markus