daemon thread not covered in K&B book

[kay lin]

Hey:
i was just running through some practice questions regarding the Thread chapter, which also happens to be the last chapter of the SCJP 1.4 exam.

however, I run in some questions related to Daemon thread..i did a bit of research online and was able to answer the questions...But then again, I realize that daemon thread i not covered in the K&B book..

so I am just wondering for those of you who have taken the SCJP 1.4 exam, have you seen any questions regarding daemon thread?

Pleae do let me know.

Thanks

[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

when I wrote my exam, there is no question about Daemon thread. But, I remember some people said, there might be chance to get question on this as because it is also Thread. So, better to prepared on that as well.

[marc weber]

I think I recall a 1.4 question that involved daemons, but I might be wrong. The key points are basically:

A running daemon thread will not prevent a program from exiting.

A thread can be designated as daemon using the setDaemon method (and tested using the isDaemon method).

[Bert Bates]

Hmmm... in the original 1.4 exam there were no daemon thread questions. It's possible that as a few questions have been retired and a few new questions introduced, that a daemon question has crept into the exam. You probably won't get any, you "might" get one. If so, all you need to know is what Marc posted.

[marc weber]

At this point, maybe I'm confusing a mock question with a real one.

[Bert Bates]

At this point I'm really not sure Marc, I think it's quite possible that Sun has added one. Occasionally an original question will be retired from the exam, and one of the backup questions will be used to replace it - I think perhaps one of those second-stringers that came off the bench mentioned daemon threads.