Re: [equinox-dev] equinox standalone problem

["Karl Pauls" <karlpauls@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Are you certain you are using the Thread.setDaemon(false) method? If you are
> not then the threads will inherit their daemon status from the invoking
> thread. If this happens to be one of the daemon framework threads then your
> bundle threads will be daemon also.

Yup, I figured that out by myself and this is what happened (see
previous mail :-).

>  One quick way to find out is to run with a console and run the "threads"
> command. It will tell you the daemon status of your bundle threads.

Yes, that is what I did. Sorry again.

regards,

Karl

>  Tom
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>  "Karl Pauls" ---03/11/2008 05:14:20 PM---> Hi Karl,
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>  From:
>  "Karl Pauls" <karlpauls@xxxxxxxxx>
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>  To:
>  "Equinox development mailing list" <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>  Date:
>  03/11/2008 05:14 PM
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>  Subject:
>  Re: [equinox-dev] equinox standalone problem
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>  > Hi Karl,
>  >
>  >  You are running into bug
>  > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215730
>
>  :-)
>
>  >  With 3.4 M5 you can set the configuration property
>  > osgi.framework.activeThreadType=normal to force a non-daemon thread be
>  > started so that the VM does not exit when the framework is running. The
>  > reason you see it stay up for 30 seconds is because there is a non-daemon
>  > thread spinning in the background waiting for a period of inactivity
> before
>  > persisting data. After it persists the data the thread exits and there is
> no
>  > other non-daemon thread alive to keep the VM running.
>
>  Well, that works but I don't really understand it. As I mentioned in
>  my previous mail, I actually have bundles installed that are creating
>  their own (non-daemon) threads so that should keep the jvm alive, no?
>
>  Thanks a lot for this workaround!
>
>  regards,
>
>  Karl
>
>  >  HTH
>  >
>  >  Tom
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  "Karl Pauls" ---03/11/2008 04:04:49 PM---Hi,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  From:
>  >  "Karl Pauls" <karlpauls@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  >  To:
>  >  equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>  >
>  >  Date:
>  >  03/11/2008 04:04 PM
>  >
>  >  Subject:
>  >  [equinox-dev] equinox standalone problem
> ________________________________
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >  I have a problem running equinox standalone. Basically, what I am
>  >  trying to do is to run equinox without a console. The set-up is as
>  >  follows:
>  >
>  >  equinox/
>  >   configuration/
>  >      config.ini
>  >   plugins/
>  >      <equinox jars>
>  >
>  >  > ../configuration/config.ini
>  >  osgi.bundles=<a set of bundles that use their own none daemon threads>
>  >  eclipse.ignoreApp=true
>  >  osgi.noShutdown=true
>  >
>  >  > java -jar org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080303.jar -noExit
>  >
>  >  The above set-up does shutdown unexpectedly after a couple of seconds
>  >  (~ 30) on the first startup and immediately on subsequent ones.
>  >
>  >  I tried with all sorts of versions of equinox (including 3.3.2 3.4.M4
>  >  nightly, integration) and any combination of -Dosgi.noShutdown=true
>  >  config.ini/osgi.noShutdown=true and -noExit but to no avail. If I use
>  >  -console everything works fine.
>  >
>  >  Help would be much appreciated.
>  >
>  >  regards,
>  >
>  >  Karl
>  >
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