How to close a Java Swing application from the code

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Your JFrame default close action can be set to “DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE” instead of EXIT_ON_CLOSE (why people keep using EXIT_ON_CLOSE is beyond me).

If you have any undisposed windows or non-daemon threads, your application will not terminate. This should be considered a error (and solving it with System.exit is a very bad idea).

The most common culprits are java.util.Timer and a custom Thread you’ve created. Both should be set to daemon or must be explicitly killed.

If you want to check for all active frames, you can use Frame.getFrames(). If all Windows/Frames are disposed of, then use a debugger to check for any non-daemon threads that are still running.

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