java.util.TimerTask

Thu Jun 19 14:27:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年6月19日, Erik Poupaert wrote:
> The fact that a task has been scheduled to run, doesn't keep the
> executable running. It exits anyway.

To be perfectly clear: you mean exit as in "fall off the end of main()"
and not exit as in "invoke System.exit(n)"?
The former won't exit as long as there are non-daemon threads running.
The timer scheduler is a non-daemon thread by default.
Jeff