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Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 11260

Java Applet not killed when browsing away

How do I stop the process of a Java Applet when a user navigates away from the page the applet has been loaded from?

I am using Chrome, and for now to kill the applet, I have to use window's taskbar and kill the process java.exe

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1673

Answers (1)

npe
npe

Reputation: 15699

Java applets have lifecycle methods. Those are init, start, stop and destroy. You should learn to use them, but what's more important, you should learn when a browser calls each of this method.

When you navigate away from your page, stop is called and you should stop threads you started in start and cleanup resources if you allocated any. Browsers do not kill JVM on every page reload because it would by extremely inefficient (and for other reasons), so if you want to stop whatever your applet is doing, implement it in stop method.

Also see here and other links on that page, for further explanation.

Upvotes: 7

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