about dameon thread.

what is a daemon thread in java. how it works back behind. is garbage collector is daemon thread or non daemon thread. can u give one example
[148 byte] By [hi_bgrhari] at [2007-9-30 17:28:29]
# 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29

An example of a daemon employed by Java is the rmid http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/rmi/index.html

It handles activation and marshaling of Java objects for the Remote Method Invocation system for distributed computing.

A very powerful and easy to program system I might add:-)

Martin3 at 2007-7-6 13:51:22 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Connection...
# 2
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29Daemon processes in unix are not a good analogy to daemon threads in java.This is because unix users consider that daemon processes 'keep' running but daemon threads do not.
jschell at 2007-7-6 13:51:22 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Connection...