#5 Is System.exit() needed?

[Anonymous]

Hi Michael,

I was wondering how important is it to use System.exit(); when using the Flora-2 java interface?
Is it not enough just to close the Flora-2 session? The reason I am asking this is that I have set up a webservice using Flora-2 and I noticed that everytime I make a call to the webservice to start a new Flora-2 session, the Java thread count goes up. If I use System.exit();, it shuts down the Tomcat server that I use for the webservice. Just wanted to check.

Thanks,
Kinzang

[Michael Kifer]

Do you mean "how important it is for you to call exit()?"
You are the one writing the service, so you decide what's needed in your particular program.
I suppose you need to look into how to terminate threads rather than shutting down the whole thing.