User and Daemon Thread

Can anyone explain me then exact difference
between a user thread and a daemon thread
Thanks in advance

hi gaurav,
here is what i know
- an application runs untill all its thread die. sometimes however u may need some threads to perform the cleanup or maintenance tasks that never terminate.
you can run such a task in a thread and flag it as a dameon thread. which tells the java virtual machine to to ignore the thread when it cheks whether all threads have terminated.
in other words a java program runs until all its no dameon die.
non dameon threads are called user threads.
- any thread can be made dameon thread by using method setDameon(true). or u can enquire about a thread's status by using function isDaemon();
- as soon as all the user threads die the application terminates & kills all the dameon threads. irrespective of the state or the work that thread is doing.
- so think twice before u put a task in a thread and declare that thread a dameon thread. coz it can die any time if the all the user threads die.
- All the threads iinitiated by a dameon thread will be dameon. & all initiated by user thread will be user threads.

this is what i know now.
i'm reading about it & will post any other thing i come to know
hope same from ur side
regards
deekasha

[This message has been edited by deekasha gunwant (edited June 22, 2000).]

please look for a prior post pretaining to user vs deamon threads with the las 15 days.
it contains a programs examples that you might find useful.
Monty6