Question

Having a console application, a server accepting several connections from clients, is it possible to have a listener or an event on a closing application? I want, in this event, tell all connected clients to gently disconnect before the application really closes itself.

Any solution? Thank you!

Answer 1

You want to use a shutdown hook:

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(theHookThread);

So the thread will be run when the JVM shuts down, see here for details.