Daemon Threads

• Daemon threads are basically service threads or system threads.
• They simply perform a service for all running programs, but are not part of the program itself.
• The garbage collection thread, for instance, is a daemon threads.
• You can make a thread a daemon by calling setDaemon(true) on that thread.
• When only daemon threads exists, the program is finished and the system exits.

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 17, 2001