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Daemon Thread and Non-Daemon Thread

Saurabh Saha
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Hi All,
I want to know what is Daemon Thread and how it is different from
Non-Daemon Thread.

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Vivek Mishra
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It's just a flag in the Thread object. The JVM will continue to run only as long as non-daemon threads exist. As soon as the only running threads have the daemon property set, the JVM will exit. That's it -- nothing more.

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