What is an appropriate way to programmatically exit an application?
- by denchr
I am evaluating user inputs as commands for my application. If the user presses Q, or q, and then hits enter, the application quits and execution terminates.
Is there a proper context, or best practices on how to do that? I do not have any resources to release, or anything like that. Should I just use System.exit(0);? Is there a recommended way to do that?
As my first approach I do something like this:
while (true){
try{
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
//Other logic goes here...
if (br.readLine().equalsIgnoreCase("Q")){
System.exit(0);
}
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("IO error trying to read your selection");
}
}
