How do I implement graceful termination in Java?

Question

Say for instance I have my application running in a Linux terminal and I press \"CTRL+C\" on my keyboard to kill the process it will terminate the Java program.

Is there

Answer 1

This works for me, capturing SIGINT/Ctrl-C on Linux:

public class TestShutdownHook
{
    public static void main(final String[] args) throws InterruptedException
    {
        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                System.out.println("Shutdown hook ran!");
            }
        });

        while (true)
        {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    }
}