J2EE Bad Practices: System.exit()
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Abstract
A web application should not attempt to shut down its container.
Description
It is never a good idea for a web application to attempt to shut down the application container. A call to System.exit() is probably part of leftover debug code or code imported from a non-J2EE application.
