How to get shutdown hook to execute on a process launched from Eclipse

Question

I have a shutdown hook in my application (created using Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook). However if I launch the application from within Eclipse, when it is shut-down the shutdown hook doesn't execute.

I think this is because Eclipse sends the equivalent of a force-kill signal to the process, which doesn't cause the shut-down hook to execute (equivalent of taskkill /F on Windows or kill -p on Linux), though I'm not absolutely sure.

Does anyone know how to get around this? I'm running Windows (Vista), and I've a feeling it may be a Windows-specific issue, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

I used the following hack at the end of my main method to get around the problem:

if (Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getenv("RUNNING_IN_ECLIPSE"))) {
    System.out.println("You're using Eclipse; click in this console and " +
            "press ENTER to call System.exit() and run the shutdown routine.");
    try {
        System.in.read();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.exit(0);
}