Application automatically terminates

Hi,

I'm an experienced developer, however I'm new to java development.

At this moment I'm working on a small java application that uses a timer. When I run my application as a Java Application in Eclipse, it will almost immediately terminate. When I call as System.out.println("Hello world!"); in the constructor, this will be executed, so i'm sure my application started running.

Is this expected behavior? Can I prevent this from happening?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Paul

Try posting your code so we can see what you are doing.

I've replicated the problem in the following DemoTermination class:

Code:

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import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class DemoTermination {
        private Timer testTimer;
       
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                DemoTermination demo = new DemoTermination();
        }
       
        public DemoTermination(){
                System.out.println("Hello world!" );
                testTimer = new Timer("testTimer", true);
                testTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate( new TestTimer(), 0, 5000 );
        }
       
        protected class TestTimer extends TimerTask {
                public void run()
                {
                        System.out.println("Running timer" );
                       
                }
        }
}

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"Running timer" is only printed once, which is caused by the delay parameter of 0 in this line:

Code:

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testTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate( new TestTimer(), 0, 5000 );

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When I change it from 0 to 5000, it will never be printed.

Your program only runs the TestTimer once because after the call to the constructor the run method is called when the next line sets up schedule parameters on your timer and then the method finishes. There are no more to execute in the main method so the application then terminates before the next timer event occurs. Try to add
int i = 0;
while (i == 0){
}
anywhere after your schedule statement. This is just a perpetual loop to demonstrate that if you keep your application alive the timer is actually running.

Looks like you need to investigate Threads.....

Thanks, keeping the thread alive by executing this loop works.