Daemon Threads in Java Programming

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A Daemon threads are those threads which is used as service providers like in Java GarbageCollector   is a daemon thread.

Any Java thread can be a daemon thread. To specify that a thread is a daemon thread, call the setDaemon method with the argument true. To determine if a thread is a daemon thread use method isDaemon.

 public class User DaemonThread{ 
 public static void main(String[] args){
  Thread t = new Thread(new DaemonThread());
  t.setDaemon(true); 
  t.start();
  try{
  Thread.sleep(150); 
  }catch(InterruptedException ei)
   System.err.println(ei);
  }
 }
}

class DaemonThread implements Runnable{
 
 }

 public void run(){ 

}
}

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