destroy() method not called

[Nesan Krish]

When I close my applet stop()or destroy() methods are NOT called, why? Can this relate to browser/operating system gugrade. (I am using Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows XP service pack 1. Thank you.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

What do you mean by "close your applet?" If you open a Frame in your applet, and then close the Frame, this won't cause stop() or destroy() to be called. But stop() should be called when you browse to another page from the one your applet is embedded in, and destroy() would be called if the browser decides to dispose the class loader that created your applet.

[Nesan Krish]

stop() or destroy() methods are not called when I close the browser (or surf some other web page) where the applet embeded in.

[Korol Bloom]

I had a problem once with a missed stop(), that was related to the use of the singleton pattern and synchronization. The browser's call of stop() caused a kind of deadlock blocking my applet.

, korol