[Smartfrog-developer] Re: About Termination Signal code in ProcessCompound.

[Dalibor T. <ro...@ka...>]

Steve Loughran <steve_loughran@...> writes:

> I guess the signal stuff predates Java1.4? And there are now better 
> alternatvies? If so, lets pull it.
> 
> I would actually assume that all official JDKs would handle it, but 
> clean room implemenations (Kaffe) would not. It is the implementation 
> differences that worry me more

Kaffe has got an implementation for shutdown hooks, afaik.

Using official APIs JDK is always better than using some internal, undocumented,
subject-to-change-without-notice-on-another-platform sun.* class, in particular
since the free runtimes like Kaffe can not implement those undocumented APIs. 

If you want to write portable Java code, please don't use sun.* APIs. :)

cheers,
dalibor topic