Justin Jose

• Oct 19th, 2005

 

Theards which are running on the background are called deamon threads.

charanvv

• Oct 19th, 2005

 

daemon thread is a thread which doesn't give any chance to run other threads once it enters into the run state it doesn't give any chance to run other threads

Justin

• Oct 20th, 2005

 

Daemon thread is a low priority thread which runs intermittently in the back ground doing the garbage collection operation for the java runtime system. setDaemon method is used to create a daemon thread.

anupamadsingh

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• Oct 21st, 2005

 

A thread is an independent sequential path of execution within a program. The JVM distinguishes between User threads & daemon threads. When a standalone application is run then as long as any user threads are active the JVM cannot terminate, otherwise the JVM terminates along with any daemon threads which might be active. Thus a daemon thread is at the mercy of the runtime system. Daemon threads exist only to serve user threads. All threads spawned in a program are user threads, they can be set as daemon threads using the setDaemon(boolean) method.

littlebuddha

• Oct 31st, 2005

 

Any Java thread can be a daemon thread. Daemon threads are service providers for other threads running in the same process as the daemon thread. For example, the HotJava browser uses up to four daemon threads named "Image Fetcher" to fetch images from the file system or network for any thread that needs one. The run() method for a daemon thread is typically an infinite loop that waits for a service request.

When the only remaining threads in a process are daemon threads, the interpreter exits. This makes sense because when only daemon threads remain, there is no other thread for which a daemon thread can provide a service.

To specify that a thread is a daemon thread, call the setDaemon() method with the argument true. To determine if a thread is a daemon thread, use the accessor method isDaemon().

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madhulatha

• Nov 3rd, 2005

 

i don't know

madhulatha

• Nov 3rd, 2005

 

i don't know

Srinivas Kallumadi

• Nov 4th, 2005

 

Any Java thread can be a daemon thread. Daemon threads are service providers for other threads running in the same process as the daemon thread. For example, the HotJava browser uses up to four daemon threads named "Image Fetcher" to fetch images from the file system or network for any thread that needs one. The run() method for a daemon thread is typically an infinite loop that waits for a service request.

When the only remaining threads in a process are daemon threads, the interpreter exits. This makes sense because when only daemon threads remain, there is no other thread for which a daemon thread can provide a service.

To specify that a thread is a daemon thread, call the setDaemon() method with the argument true. To determine if a thread is a daemon thread, use the accessor method isDaemon().

sampra

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• Feb 15th, 2008

 

demon thread is nting but it is service thread